BY THE WAYSIDE On the hill the golden-rod, And the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, In autumn beauty stood. William Cullen Bryant. AMONG AUTUMN LEAVES In WOOD WANDERINGS BY WINTHROP PACKARD ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES COPELAND Published in 1910 THE deep woods catch all the rich colors of the…
Category: Washington Irving
#MemoirFest Day 12 – Character Development – Read Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Rewrite One of Your Characters
Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 200 years ago, and he has left potential writers with at least two excellent stories for studying masterful storytelling and masterful development of both setting and the creation of characters. In another post, I examined Irving’s use of Setting in his story Rip…
#MemoirFest Day 11: Read about the Setting for Rip Van Winkle – Edit What You Wrote about Your Terrain
Washington Irving is considered as the Father of the Short Story, which began as an American literary form. His delightful story Rip Van Winkle is thought to have been the first American short story. In 1916, W. Patterson Atkinson said the following about the short story: “A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can…
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving – Illustrated by Arthur Rackham – Read the Book Free
Rip Van Winkle was Originally Published in 1819 The Arthur Rackham Edition was Published in 1905 INTRODUCTION The following tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its…
The Hudson River Painters
“The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the Upper New York Bay between New York City and Jersey City, eventually…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving – Read the Book Free
The Headless Horseman – Painted by John Quidor in 1858 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Published in 1820 lThe fictional narrator of this story is Mr. Knicerbocker] In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated…