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American Literature Romanticist Washington Irving First group：秦毅之 0890030401 朱凯 0890030402 王婷0890030403 侯苏娟 0890030404 李燕 0890030444 Washington Irving Introduction Life experience Writing style Contribution Major works Introduction Washington Irving（1783-1859 ）American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist. He was regarded as an early romantic writer in the American literary history. Irving has been called the father of the American short story. He is best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and Rip Van Winkle, about a man who falls asleep for 20 years. 华盛顿·欧文被萨克雷称为“新世界文坛送往旧世界的第一使节”。 Life Experience Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783 in New York City, New York. Born with strong preference for literature, he read widely and wrote a lot of poems, essays, though he become a lawyer after schooling. By the time when he was 23 years old (1809),he had roamed England, Holland, France Italy and Hudson Valley. Life Experience After collecting sufficient original materials for writing and a good practice of editing a journal ,he formed his particular political Idea and writing style . He began his researches on A History of New York , written under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker. A History of New York came out in 1809, thus won him wide popularity. Life Experience Washington Irving was engaged to marry Matilda Hoffmann, who died on April 26, 1809 at the age of 17. Irving never became engaged, or married anyone. In 1815 Irving sailed again for England. Thus began to remain abroad for 17 years. Life Experience He settled down in a small village and began the writing of The Sketch Book The book appeared serially in the years of 1819—1820. It established Irving’s reputation at home and abroad and designated the beginning of American Romanticism. W