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200 Years of Twas the Night - UI Podcast #185
Season 14 · Episode 185

200 Years of Twas the Night - UI Podcast #185

Author Pamela McColl discusses the history of the classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas.

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December 5, 20221h 1m

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Show Notes

December 24, 2022, marks the bicentennial of the classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas. Pamela McColl, author of the new book Twas the Night, The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem, joins me to discuss the origins of the poem, the debate over who truly wrote it, and how it has gone on to be the most published and most often recited poem in the library of English literature.

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