In An American Anthology, 1787–1900, editor Edmund Clarence Stedman reprinted the Moore version of the poem, including the Dutch spelling of “Donder” and German spelling of "Blitzen" that he adopted, rather than the version from 1823 "Dunder and Blixem" that is more similar to the old Dutch “Donder en Blixem” that translates to " Thunder and Lightning". As a result, "New Yorkers embraced Moore's child-centered version of Christmas as if they had been doing it all their lives."
By having Saint Nicholas arrive the night before, Moore "deftly shifted the focus away from Christmas Day with its still-problematic religious associations". At the time that Moore wrote the poem, Christmas Day was overtaking New Year's Day as the preferred genteel family holiday of the season, but some Protestants viewed Christmas as the result of "Catholic ignorance and deception" and still had reservations. Moore's conception of Saint Nicholas was borrowed from his friend Washington Irving, but Moore portrayed his "jolly old elf" as arriving on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. He included it in the anthology at the insistence of his children, for whom he had originally written the piece.
Moore had a reputation as an erudite professor and had not wished at first to be connected with the unscholarly verse. By then, the original publisher and at least seven others had already acknowledged his authorship. Moore himself acknowledged authorship when he included it in his own book of poems in 1844. It was first attributed in print to Moore in 1837. The poem was first published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel on 23 December 1823, having been sent there by a friend of Moore, and was reprinted frequently thereafter with no name attached. Moore originated many of the features that are still associated with Santa Claus today while borrowing other aspects, such as the use of reindeer. His inspiration for the character of Saint Nicholas was a local Dutch handyman as well as the historic Saint Nicholas. The authorship of A Visit is credited to Clement Clarke Moore who is said to have composed it on a snowy winter's day during a shopping trip on a sleigh. Clement Clarke Moore, the author of A Visit from St.
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