Comment on Artistic Features of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book.doc

Comment on Artistic Features of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book 　　[a]Lecturer. School of Foreign Languages， Changchun University of Science and Technology， Changchun， China. *Corresponding author. Received 17 November 2012； accepted 6 January 2013 Abstract Washington Irving is a great American romantic writer. He employs his beautiful works， unique description to create different genders of literary works. The Sketch Book is seen as his masterpiece， because of its language like poems， the authors contemplation of scene he darts his eyes into as well as his detailed description of what he associated with the scene he saw. This paper aims to make a comment on the artistic features of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book from three respects. The first is insert of poem functioning theme interpretation of his articles. The second is the author’s evaluation knitted with the narration. The last is the minute description of the scene by refine words. Key words： Washington Irving； The Sketch Book； Insert of poem； Evaluation knitted with the narration； Scene minute description by refine words LIU Jianbo， LI Saina （2013）. Comment on Artistic Features of Washington Irvings The Sketch Book. Studies in Literature and Language， 7（2）， -0. Available from： http：///index.php/sll/article/view/j.sll.1923156320130702.2812 DOI： http：///10.3968/j.sll.1923156320130702.2812 INTRODUCTION Washington Irving is the famous American writer who is regarded as father of American literature. He creates the first American short story Rip Van Winkle， and also writes a lot of biographies of some great men such as George Washington， the first president of his country， the world-famous navigator Christopher Columbus， and British famous novelist Oliver Goldsmith. As a historian， he publishes his The History of New York and many volumes of Spanish history. His great book The Sketch Book marks the beginning of American romanticism. Washington Irving is noteworthy for his minut