Washington Irving And Other Essays
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781417962549
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays
First sentence: Though Washington Irving has the distinction of having been the first literary genius which this country produced and the first American author to win recognition in Europe, it cannot be claimed for him that in any of the fields of literature which he cultivated he was an imposing writer.