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Watercolor of Washington Irving's encounter with George Washington, painted in 1854 by George Bernard Butler Jr. The Irving family settled in Manhattan, and were part of the city's merchant class. Washington was born on April 3, 1783, [ 1 ] the same week that New York City residents learned of the British ceasefire which ended the American ...
Irving was seen as a writing pioneer by Gilmore who said that he was "an innovator who established American writing on a new footing as a viable profession." [5] Irving has been "hailed as the father of American literature" and Bradbury considers him to be the "pioneer of American literary Romanticism." [6]
"Rip Van Winkle" (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains .
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England.
American Romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) and "Rip Van Winkle" (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic ...
This irritated Irving as it had intended to portray it as a chronicle based on old Spanish historians, whereas "you make me personally responsible for the verity of fact and the soundness of the opinions of what was intended to given as a romantic chronicle". [2] In 1815 Irving had moved to London before travelling widely across Continental Europe.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
Washington Irving (novelist, satirist) Archibald Lampman (poet) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) James Russell Lowell (writer) Edward MacDowell (composer) Herman Melville (novelist) Edgar Allan Poe (poet, short story writer) Charles Sangster (poet, Canadian) Henry David Thoreau (poet, essayist) John Greenleaf Whittier (poet)