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The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.
Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti.It was published under the title "A Christmas Carol" in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly, [1] [2] and first collected in book form in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1875).
John Reade (November 13, 1837 – March 26, 1919) was an Irish-born Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet once considered "the grand old man of Canadian letters." He is best known as the literary editor of the Montreal Gazette, a position he held for almost 50 years.
Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra.
The McCall Winter Carnival began in 1965 but was inspired by the Payette Lake Winter Games, which lasted from 1924 to 1941. The winter games included dog and snowshoe racing, horse skijoring and ...
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
A Winter Carnival had been held over the border in Montreal with an ice castle in 1885. With a model to draw upon the Saint Paul Winter Carnival was created in 1886. It was followed by carnivals held in 1887, 1888 and 1896. The Carnival was held again in 1916 and 1917. There was another lapse until 1937 when they continued through 1942.