“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” turns 200 this year
How a poem created our modern Christmas customs
It is one of the most famous poems in the English language—almost as famous as Christmas itself. A single word is enough to get going: “‘Twas”. You know the rest, or probably quite a bit of it.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The poem that imagined modern Christmas”
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