Now, however, Irving is considered by some to be old-fashioned, a fate he anticipated in his essays in
The Sketch Book: "Westminster Abbey" and "The Mutability of Literature." In the former he says: "Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present, to think of the characters and anecdotes that gave interest to the past." Yet Irving acknowledges that imagination of a Shakespearean quality defies mutability--an opinion that may well apply to Irving's best work.
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