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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Lesson Plan
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| Name: |
Washington Irving | | Variant Name: |
Fray Antonio Agapida, Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker, Launcelot Langstaff, Jonathan Oldstyle | | Birth Date: |
April 3, 1783 | | Death Date: |
November 28, 1859 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Irvington, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
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 Biography of Washington Irving
15873 words, approx. 52.9 pages
 "I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t... summary from source:
 Biography of Washington Irving
12298 words, approx. 41 pages
Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i... summary from source:
Biography of Washington Irving
11468 words, approx. 38.2 pages
Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Summary
3,634 words, approx. 12 pages"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving 7Vashington Irving was born in New York in 1783. He was strongly influenced by the Dutch culture of that area, which maintained a distinctive identity into the early 1800s. Successfully integrating both... summary from source:
 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Information
1,209 words, approx. 4 pages
 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece...
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 The Loyalist Gazette Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
09/22/1996: 462 words, approx. 2 pages The fiction of Washington Irving, one of the earliest, if not the earliest, successful author in the early United States, contains references to the American Revolution. Although his stories are set some years after that War, a certain 'flavour' of the period remains.... summary from source:
The Journal Record Familiar Legend Leads to Purchase of Sleepy Hollow
10/01/1993: 920 words, approx. 3 pages Journal Record Staff Reporter A familiar legend from home led Houston Muzio to become associated with an Oklahoma City legend. Both legends are called "Sleepy Hollow." "I'm from Tarrytown (New York) where the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Ichabod Crane was... summary from source:
 AP News Sleepy Hollow police brutality alleged
12/20/2007: 277 words, approx. 1 pagesThe FBI is investigating accusations of police brutality and misconduct in the historic village of Sleepy Hollow after officers used stun guns on a 16-year-old boy and another man on separate occasions, the mayor said Wednesday.The FBI notified the village about a month ago that... summary from source:
AP-Travel Online Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane Return
10/31/2006: 597 words, approx. 2 pages The Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane have returned to Sleepy Hollow for Halloween, and this time they won't be disappearing afterward into the mists of legend. Just in time to frighten young trick-or-treaters, an 18-foot-high steel sculpture of the Horseman...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Daniel G. Hoffman
4,664 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Hoffman explains how “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” dramatizes a conflict between two cultures—those of the Yankee city-dweller and the backwoodsman—that was to become a major theme in American literature.
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Romanticism and the mockery of it in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
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