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“Irving tells us that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was also in the papers found by the late Diedrich Knickerbocker.”
“Rip’s main role now is oral historian, telling his story along with “a chronicle of the old times ‘before the war’” to all who will listen.”
“Ichabod tries to outrun the ghost, but he is hit in the head with a pumpkin and thrown off his horse.”
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“__________________________________ From A Washington Irving Sketch Book: Reflections on an American Writer .”
“Rip is a descendant of the Van Winkles who fought bravely under Peter Stuyvesant, though he himself is too timid to participate in such martial gallantry.”
“Ichabod does what he can to spiff himself up, even borrowing a horse, an old nag, to ride to the shindig to which he and Brom have been invited.”
“All this may be true, but it is not why I keep going back to this tale.”
“Copyright © 2026 by Phillip Lopate A Washington Irving Sketchbook: Reflections on an American Writer biography history Phillip Lopate Princeton University Press Rip Van Winkle short stories Washington Irving Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate is the author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and of four essay collections, Bachelorhood , Against Joie de Vivre , Portrait of My Body , and Portrait Inside My Head .”
“In fact, twenty years have passed while he slept, and during that time the American Revolution was fought and the colonists were freed from British rule.”
“He wanders into his old Dutch village, only to find it much changed.”
“He was never able to duplicate that happily inspired, imaginative turn as a fiction writer, though he did insert stories as a device to vary his essay collections.”
“He is the editor of the anthologies The Art of the Personal Essay , Writing New York , and American Movie Critics .”
“The old tavern sign, which used to feature a portrait of King George III, now sports the image of another George—George Washington.”
“The hero, or antihero, of the story is Ichabod Crane, a rather ridiculous-looking schoolmaster who has set his cap for Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful, coquettish daughter of a wealthy Dutch farmer.”
“Steven Blakemore has argued in his thoughtful paper “Family Resemblance: The Text and Contexts of ‘Rip Van Winkle,’” that there is also a political dimension to the tale.”
“Beyond supplying readymade plots, these oral traditions were ready to hand in his efforts to establish an American literature, one absent all the rich history and defined class structure of England.”
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