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Washington Irving
April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: A Chronicle Of Wolfert’s Roost - Prose | I have observed that as a man advances in life, | | 60 | 1075 | | 2: A Legend Of Communipaw - Prose | I observed in your last month’s periodical, a communication from a Mr. VANDERDONK, | | 45 | 987 | | 3: A Royal Poet - Prose | ON a soft sunny morning in the genial month of May I made an excursion to Windsor Castle. | | 91 | 928 | | 4: A Sunday In London - Prose | In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country and its tranquillizing effect upon the landscape; | | 6 | 967 | | 5: Christmas - Prose | Nothing in England exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination | | 30 | 801 | | 6: Christmas Day - Prose | When I woke the next morning it seemed as if all the events of the preceding | | 63 | 744 | | 7: Christmas Eve - Prose | It was a brilliant moonlight night, but extremely cold; | | 69 | 778 | | 8: Communipaw - Prose | I observe, with pleasure, that you are performing from time to time a pious duty | | 27 | 981 | | 9: Conspiracy Of The Cocked Hats - Prose | I have read with great satisfaction the valuable paper of your correspondent, Mr. HERMANUS VANDERDONK, | | 27 | 980 | | 10: Desultory Thoughts On Criticism - Prose | Let a man write never so well, there are now-a-days a sort of persons they call critics, | | 15 | 990 | | 11: English Writers On America - Prose | It is with feelings of deep regret that I observe the literary animosity daily growing up between England and America. | | 21 | 944 | | 12: John Bull - Prose | There is no species of humor in which the English more excel | | 36 | 986 | | 13: Legend Of Don Munio Sancho De Hinojosa - Prose | In the cloisters of the ancient Benedictine convent of San Domingo, | | 20 | 967 | | 14: Legend Of The Engulphed Convent - Prose | At the dark and melancholy period when Don Roderick the Goth and his chivalry | | 22 | 963 | | 15: Little Britain - Prose | In the centre of the great City of London lies a small neighborhood, | | 33 | 716 | | 16: London Antiques - Prose | I am somewhat of an antiquity-hunter, and am fond of exploring London | | 25 | 726 | | 17: L’Envoy - Prose | In concluding a second volume of the Sketch Book the Author | | 11 | 1049 | | 18: National Nomenclature - Prose | I am somewhat of the same way of thinking, in regard to names, with that profound philosopher, Mr. Shandy, | | 19 | 991 | | 19: Pelayo And The Merchant’s Daughter - Prose | It is the common lamentation of Spanish historiographers, | | 39 | 990 | | 20: Philip Of Pokanoket - An Indian Memoir - Prose | It is to be regretted that those early writers who treated of the discovery | | 43 | 977 | | 21: Recollections Of The Alhambra - Prose | During a summer’s residence in the old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, | | 7 | 983 | | 22: Rip Van Winkle - Prose | From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday, | | 85 | 930 | | 23: Roscoe - Prose | In the service of mankind to be | | 31 | 898 | | 24: Rural Funerals - Prose | Among the beautiful and simple-hearted customs of rural life which still | | 102 | 829 | | 25: Rural Life In England - Prose | The stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character, | | 32 | 927 | | 26: Sleepy Hollow - Prose | Having pitched my tent, probably for the remainder of my days, | | 52 | 1004 | | 27: Spanish Romance - Prose | I have already given you a legend or two drawn from ancient Spanish sources, | | 7 | 970 | | 28: Stratford-On-Avon - Prose | To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly | | 87 | 699 | | 29: The Abencerrage - A Spanish Tale - (Prose) | On the summit of a craggy hill, a spur of the mountains of Ronda, | | 47 | 968 | | 30: The Adelantado Of The Seven Cities - A Legend Of St. Brandan - Prose | In the early part of the fifteenth century, when Prince Henry of Portugal, | | 67 | 969 | | 31: The Angler - Prose | It is said that many an unlucky urchin is induced to run away from his family | | 44 | 985 | | 32: The Art Of Book Making - Prose | I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, | | 14 | 871 | | 33: The Bermudas - A Shaksperian Research: - Prose | Who did not think, till within these foure yeares, but that these islands had been rather a habitation for Divells, | | 77 | 958 | | 34: The Birds Of Spring - Prose | My quiet residence in the country, aloof from fashion, politics, | | 54 | 972 | | 35: The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap - A Shakespearian Research - Prose | It is a pious custom in some Catholic countries to honor the memory of saints by votive lights burnt before their pictures. | | 33 | 965 | | 36: The Broken Heart - Prose | It is a common practice with those who have outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, | | 36 | 1040 | | 37: The Christmas Dinner - Prose | I had finished my toilet, and was loitering with Frank Bracebridge | | 74 | 729 | | 38: The Count Van Horn - Prose | During the minority of Louis XV., while the Duke of Orleans was Regent of France, | | 38 | 920 | | 39: The Country Church - Prose | There are few places more favorable to the study of character than an English country church. | | 20 | 955 | | 40: The Enchanted Island - Prose | There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy, | | 9 | 1055 | | 41: The Inn Kitchen - Prose | During a journey that I once made through the Netherlands, | | 4 | 825 | | 42: The Knight Of Malta - Prose | In the course of a tour which I made in Sicily, | | 61 | 940 | | 43: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow - Prose | In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore | | 85 | 1008 | | 44: The Mutability Of Literature - A Colloquy In Westminster Abbey - Prose | There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal | | 29 | 816 | | 45: The Pride of the Village - Prose | In the course of an excursion through one of the remote counties of England, | | 37 | 959 | | 46: The Spectre Bridegroom - A Traveller’s Tale. - Prose | On the summit of one of the heights of the Odenwald, | | 62 | 820 | | 47: The Stage-Coach - Prose | In the preceding paper I have made some general observations on the Christmas | | 26 | 770 | | 48: The Voyage - Prose | Ships, ships, I will descrie you | | 17 | 932 | | 49: The Widow And Her Son - Prose | Those who are in the habit of remarking such matters must have noticed the passive quiet of an English landscape on Sunday. | | 26 | 859 | | 50: The Wife - Prose | The treasures of the deep are not so precious | | 33 | 999 | | 51: Traits Of Indian Character - Prose | There is something in the character and habits of the North American savage, | | 24 | 737 | | 52: Westminster Abbey - Prose | On one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn | | 41 | 800 |
About:
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. His works include biographies of George Washington and Muhammad, and histories of 15th century Spain dealing with subjects such as Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.
Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also the U.S. minister to Spain 1842–1846.
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