... his writings. This essay analyses the main characteristics of American Neoclassicism and Romanticism that are the most strongly present in Irving's Sketch Book as well as the contributions of Irving to American Literature. The Sketch Book merges Neoclassical concepts like intellectual view of man, philosophic theory of literature, man's political and social activities are chief subjects, ... objective point of view, and concern with universal ideas with Romantic concepts like didactic belief, expressive theory of literature ... Irving successfully incorporates the past with the present ...

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