The poem is told from the perspective of a father who, after his family goes to sleep on Dec. 24, spies a jolly, rosy-cheeked old man in a reindeer-pulled sleigh filled with toys for the children.

The last thing Wilson has had time to think about these last few months is Christmas. The 33-year-old became a single dad to kids Donald Jr., 5, Poetry, 4 and Honesty, 1 in August after his ex ...

New York Today A Famous Christmas Poem Could Sell for $500,000 “A Visit From St. Nicholas” is the beginning of modern Christmas, a manuscript specialist at Christie’s said.

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

Discover how a 4th-century poem by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius to respond to Christian heresies evolved into “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” by the 19th century.

“American Christmas,” first published in 1965, includes both classic and nearly unknown works, and widens a reader’s sense of what the holiday might mean.

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is bel… ...