Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rip van Winkle” in chapter 5 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...ch changes as these in literary fashion scarcely affect the permanent service of Irving to our literature.
He immortalized a local type — the New York Dutchman-and local legends, like that of Rip van Winkle ; he used the framework of the narrative essay to create something almost like the perfected short story of Poe and Hawthorne; he wrote prose with unfailing charm in an age when charm was lacking; an...
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