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American Romanticism(1810s-1860s) The?Romantic?Period?covers?the?first?half?of ?the?19th?century.?A?rising?America?with?its ?ideals?of?democracy?and?equality,?its?industrialization,?its?western?expansion,?and?a?variety?of?foreign?influences?such?as?Sir?Walter?Scott ?were?among?the?important?factors?which?made?literary?expansion?and?expression?not?only?possible?but?also?inevitable?in?the?period ?immediately?following?the?nation’s?political?independence.?Yet,? Romantics?frequently?shared?certain?general?characteristics:?moral?enthusiasm,?faith?in?value?of?individualism?and?a?presumption?that?the?natural?world?was?a?source?of?goodness?and? man’s?societies?a?source?of?corruption.?Romantic?values?were?prominent?in?American?politics,?art,?and?philosophy?until?the?Civil?War.?The? romantic?exaltation?of?the?individual?suited ?the?nation’s?revolutionary?heritage?and?its? frontier?egalitarianism.? Introduction of W.Irving Born:3,April,1783 Died:28 November,1859 He was an American author ,essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. Irving also is the U.S minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846 Works 1809 His first book A History of New York《纽约外史》was a great success and won him wide popularity 1819-1820 With the publication of The Sketch Book《见闻札记》又名《柑掌录》, he won a measure of international recognition 1828 The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus 1829 A Chronic of the Conquest of Granada 1832 The Alhambra 1842-1846 Life of Goldsmith Life of Washington ... Position in American Literature He was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame He was the father of American literature for his first book The History of New York acclaiming the begin of American Romanticism The Sketch Book is the first short story in American literature Rip Van WINKLE The plot A villager of Dutch descent escapes his nagging wife by wandering up Mountains. After various advent