Washington Irving Niklas Cathey per.4
Washington Irving was a famous writer during the early 1800s from America. He was known for his humorous writing style and ironic plots and story development. He was one of the creators of the genre American Romantic. Washington Irving is known as the father of American literature. Irving developed a sophisticated yet ironic style while helping establish the American respect in the writing community across Europe and the world. He was one of the first American writers who were respected abroad.
Washington Irving was an American author during the 1800’s. He was born in Manhattan, New York on April 3rd, 1783. His parents were Scottish-English immigrants, who moved to America and had 11 children. His parents and many of his brothers were merchants in America. All of his family was middle class works, but they supported him through all his literature dreams and becoming a writer. As a young student Washington was not interested in school. He would leave class often to the theater instead. He studied law and began writing at a young age. He travelled to France and Italy in 1804, there writing colorful journals and letters, then returned to New York City to continue his law studies. He and his brother William Irving wrote the Salmagundi papers, a collection of humorous essays and comic like works. The popular term for Gotham for New York City began from these writings. He first became known for his comic work. In 1809, after the death of his seventeen-year-old fiancée Matilda Hoffman, Irving completed his first major book, “A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty,” under one of his fake names-Diedrich Knickerbocker. In 1815, Irving went to En...
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...ving also supported for writing as a legitimate career, and argued for stronger laws to protect writers from copyright infringement. Irving truly did believe in the success of being a writer and just that.
Washington Irving had a strong connection to European literature. He was a large fan of German folklore and stories. Much of his ideas and inspiration came from this. He used some ideas and technics he learned from these stories like his use of imagery. He uses imagery to paint scenes how a reader would imagine it, without explaining in plain detail.
Washington Irving was a very important author to American literature and even to literature across America and Europe. He is credited for creating the fictional short story in America and for being one of the first American Romantic genre authors. Washington irving should be more famous for all his accomplishments
Throughout Irving’s story, he used characterization, irony, the dreams, and other literacy devices to bring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to life for Irving’s audience.
In Washington Irving’s work “Rip Van Winkle,” Irving demonstrates all characteristics of an American Mythology rather humorously. These characteristics affect the story attracting the attention of readers and impacting the reader’s experience of the story by relishing America’s unique attributes and values. In “Rip Van Winkle,” Irving incorporates attributes of American Mythology by setting the story in exciting pastimes, filling the story with strange and exaggerated characters, and featuring magical mysterious events.
Edgar Allan Poe had a significant influence todays writers, he was a writer ahead of his times. Poe was one of the most celebrated American short story writers. He was also known as a famous poet, a critic, and an editor.
They are the ones that with their unique styles managed to impress people from their society, and more importantly, continued to influence writers many years later. Although some of their works are considered a little out of tone with their time, perhaps controversial, one cannot deny that they are outstanding pieces of work because of their topic and theme. From satire to fiction, Washington Irving created a reputation for being the first American to transcend in America and England. Hawthorne used the events in his life as a source of inspiration, and better yet, his perspective of society and mankind, helped him write great novels Finally Edgard Allan Poe, a man with a troubled soul, managed to write entrancing works full of mystery, crime, and gothic themes. All three men were successful writers and no doubt their works will keep being an inspiration for many more
writer who gave so much of himself in his belief that "writing was his duty on earth."
Have you ever imagined being asleep in the forest for twenty years, coming back home and not knowing what has gone on all those years of your absence? Rip Van Winkle went through that, and had to come back home and face some real changes. The author Washington Irving has some interesting characters whom he puts in his short stories. Irving puts some characters in his short stories to reflect on some of his life. For example, Irving has similarities between Rip Van Winkle being asleep in the forest 20 years and Irving was in Europe for seventeen writing short stories and being the governor’s aid and military secretary. These two situations are similar, because they both didn’t know what they were going to come back too and were gone for such a long period of time. Irving does put some of his own life into his short stories and with a reason for his self-reflective works.
Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, he always had an appreciation of the land and people from there. Irving was quite opposed to the fact that New York was becoming and would become one of the biggest and most prominent cities in the entire world. Irving seemed to be fonder of the lush foliage and the rolling hills of the city, rather than a crowded city and huge port. Irving conveys his beliefs through Knickerbocker in "A History of New York," in the essay Irving says "Happy would it have been for New Amsterdam could it always have existed in this state of blissful ignorance and lowly simplicity, but alas! the days of childhood are too sweet to last! Cities, like men, grow out of them in time, and are doomed alike to grow into the bustle, the cares, and miseries of the world." (Irving 570). Irving believed that his New York would not be the same if it was given all of the exporting and importing power in the east, which it was and is not the way he wished it was.
...rd his successful life as an author or writer. Irving was a very deft man and his work is known all over. The death of Washington Irving impacted New York greatly after they heard from his death. His hometown was also very devastated.
I believe that if Lindenwold High School was to get rid of the three authors Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Washington Irving, I feel as if they should keep Washington Irving in the education rotation. I believe this because he has shaped the English language with two of his short stories , Rip Van Winkle and The Devil and Tom Walker. For example, in the story The Devil and Tom Walker, Irving uses VIVID and PHENOMENAL vocab words such as propitious which means suggesting a good chance for success, ostentation which means an object for which is used to impress, and avarice which means high greed for wealth. Also, in the story, The Devil and Tom Walker, the imagery was simply SUPERB for example, from the lines 24-27 you can see the old forlorn
Irving uses many other images and scenes within this story that could be delved into further. However, I believe these three main points, along with the knowledge of the political climate of the times, shows Irving’s genius in representing both sides of the political gamut. Irving was able to cater to both the British and the Colonist without offending either side. Irving’s genius was that even though this was an allegory of its time, its elements could represent either or both sides of the conflict during the Revolution. This dual representation in an allegorical story ensured his success, in both countries as a writer. It allowed Irving to make a political statement without taking sides.
Robert Frost is very successful poet from the 20th century, as well as a four time Pulitzer Prize winner. Robert Frost work was originally published in England and later would be published in the US. He was also considered one of the most popular and respected poets of his century. Robert Frost created countless of poems and plays, many of them containing similar themes. Some of the most popular themes found in his poems encompass isolation, death and everyday life.
Washington Irving has been accused of misogyny. He may appear to show this trait in his stories, he shows the women in his story to be mean, ferocious and hateful. In the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Devil and Tom Walker, he shows this, especially in these stories with the exception of Sleepy Hollow. In his stories Washington Irving appears to be a misogynist by suppressing the male character. On the other hand, it is hard to determine whether he is a hater of women, because no irrefutable evidence can be given to prove this fact. Showing mutability from his other stories to Sleepy Hollow.
John Steinbeck was, and still is today, one of the most influential writers in American history. His works, such as Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, are to this day influential on the image of the impoverished worker during and shortly before the era of the Great Depression. Steinbeck lived a fascinating life with several different influences, and a number of different successful stylistic works.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man known for his classic writings, early career, and being a great figure to the American people. Longfellow was recognized because of his great writing skills and for being very focused, which helped him keep a straight mind on his writings. Longfellow still leaves an impact on the American people today. Most everyone has heard of who he is and thinks highly of what he achieved in his life and career. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poetic hero that influenced the lives of mostly everyone who read his writings because they were so patriotically and realistically written. Longfellow was a man that will never be forgotten in the American culture.
Romantic period is an age when writers focus on the power of human mind and seek for the promotion of individual’s sensibility in understanding the world and even creating its own through imagination. However, Romantic writing is not always aimed at the development of individuals. Actually, literary works in this period have a close relationship with social conditions—seeking to promote the development of society is a crucial purpose in Romantic writing. In the following passage, I would like to discuss two famous Romantic authors, William Blake and Washington Irving, and how their works contribute to the development of society.