The world: historical and actual . N. P. WILLIS. 642 AMERICAN LITERATURE. Mrs. Sigouriiey also stood very high as a poetess inher time. She was a prolific writer of verse, beingoften called upon, to grace special occasions. Shewas born in Connecticut in 1791 and died in Irving is the supreme landmark inAmerican prose. He was born in New York in 1783and died in 1859. He began his literary career asthe anonymous writer of a comic history of NewYork under the primitive Dutch. It was a verybrilliant success. That was in 1809, when he wasyoung and rich. lie wrote simply as a recreat
The world: historical and actual . N. P. WILLIS. 642 AMERICAN LITERATURE. Mrs. Sigouriiey also stood very high as a poetess inher time. She was a prolific writer of verse, beingoften called upon, to grace special occasions. Shewas born in Connecticut in 1791 and died in Irving is the supreme landmark inAmerican prose. He was born in New York in 1783and died in 1859. He began his literary career asthe anonymous writer of a comic history of NewYork under the primitive Dutch. It was a verybrilliant success. That was in 1809, when he wasyoung and rich. lie wrote simply as a WASHINGTON IRVING. But about ten years later his fortune disappeared,and he took up literature as his life-work. Othershad made it a trade: he took it up as a was not a literary artisan, but an artist. Hissketches and tales attracted the attention of SirWalter Scott and others in the old world. It wasthen admitted by the British critics that perhapssome good tiling could come out of republicanAmerica. He wrote several elaborate histories, hisColumbus being the first and his Washington thelast. His fine style could invest any subject withinterest. Irving was a very fortunate man in histemperament. For many years he was the mostpopular man in the country, always praised andnever dazed by adulation. As a historian Irving lacked the critical facultywhich is necessary to the very highest merit in that department of literature. But America can justlyboast of her contributions to historical names present themselves in this Sparks (1791-1866)
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