Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories PDF Washington Irving

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It is not difficult to understand why selections from The Sketch Book were used as models of style in nineteenth-century American schoolrooms. Irving prided himself on being a stylist. The modem editor of The Sketch Book, Haskell Springer, tells us that in revising the text for the first English edition, Irving reworded and rephrased numerous passages in response to criticism, including specifically several passages singled out by Dana as marred by mixed metaphor.

In addition he made several structural changes, the most important perhaps being to move “Westminster Abbey” from near the end to the middle of the book. He added three new selections to the second volume, including reworked versions of “Traits of English Character” and “Philip of Pokanoket,” originally written for The Analectic Magazine several years earlier. And he rearranged many of the other sketches and sto

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