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5 days ago · Discover the magic of Irving's Legend at Washington Irving's historic Sunnyside! Step into a world of enchantment and mystery as master storyteller Jonathan Kruk brings Washington Irving's timeless tale to life.
5 days ago · Over the past 250 plus years the library has been visited by such illustrious writers and figures as Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, W.H. Auden, and many...
5 days ago · Irving states that the rights of citizens, elections, members of Congress, liberty, Bunker's Hill, heros of seventy-six, etc, were Babylonish jargon to Rip Van Winkle.
4 days ago · L'envoy - Prose. Go, little booke, God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere, Unto them all that thee will read or hear, Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all. - CHAUCER'S Belle Dame sans Mercie.
4 days ago · Poems Biography. The Voyage - Prose. Ships, ships, I will descrie you. Amidst the main, I will come and try you, What you are protecting, And projecting, What's your end and aim. One goes abroad for merchandise and trading, Another stays to keep his country from invading, A third is coming home with rich and wealthy lading.
5 days ago · Eccentric millionaire John Jacob Astor commissioned Washington Irving to write Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (1836), which made famous the Astor Expedition’s harrowing...
5 days ago · The National Museum of the American Indian operates three facilities. The museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., offers exhibition galleries and spaces for performances, lectures and symposia, research, and education.
