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Teaching Focus Historical Background Romanticism American Romanticism Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Features of American Romanticism A) Imitative B) Independent a. Peculiar American experience (landscape, pioneering to the west, Indian civilization, new nation’s democracy and dreams) b. Puritan heritage (more moralizing, edifying more than mere entertainment, careful about love and sex) Periods of American Romanticism Early Romanticism(1770s to 1830s) : Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell modeled on works of English and European masters like John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Byron and Wordsworth Late Romanticism(1830s to 1860s): Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville Representative Writers of the Romanticism Washington Irving James Fennimore Cooper Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Washington Irving(1783-1859) Contents I. Position in American literature II.His Life III.Major Works IV. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow V. Contributions Position in American literature American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist. the first important American fiction writer who gains international fame. often referred to as The Father of American Literature or The Father of American Letters “. His Life A. Born in a rich merchant family, the last of 11 children B. Liked traveling and reading C. Learned law but more interested in writing D. Went to England for family business E. Wrote to support himself after business failure F. Diplomatic work for a period G. He died in 1859 without being married. Major works (1) A History of New York (1809)a. written under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker; b. a popular and humorous handbook about