Washington Irving was an American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist. 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. Washington Irving's life is in the beginning of national experience. His life is basically the light of the Romanticism. Irving is sensitive …showed first 75 words of 910 total…

…showed last 75 words of 910 total…values, but sometimes they can also represent their anti-ideals, and these anti-ideals sometimes represent the imaginary world of people, the unreal. The idea of escaping is the result of having too much pressure or responsibilities, and that is what happens in Rip Van Winkle's figure. <Tab/> Works Cited List Wagenknecht, E. Washington Irving: Moderation Displayed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Curtis, G. Washington Irving: A Sketch. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1976.