Washington Irving

     Washington Irving is an American writer, who is famous for two works. these two works are Rip Van Wrinkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.Irving was the first American storyteller to be internationally recognized as a man of letters and first great prose stylist of American romanticism. His pen name is Diedrich Knickerbocker.We can call him as the father of American literature.then we talk something about his contributions. He is the first American writer of imaginative literature to win international fame, Irving introduced the familiar essay from Europe to America.His works are full of strong sense of humor.He wrote to amuse and entertain, avoided moralizing as much as possible.He was good at enveloping his stories in a gothic and supernatural atmosphere.The characters are vivid and true so that they tend to linger in the reader's mind.last one is that his language is so refined and musical.

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