Chronological Movements In American Literature Practice Test

Which author is associated with early American romantic supernatural tales and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson

Correct Answer:

Washington Irving

Explanation:

Washington Irving is the author tied to early American Romanticism and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He published The Sketch Book in 1819–20, which includes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, blending folklore, humor, and a sense of American place to shape a distinctly national form of romance with a touch of the supernatural. Nathaniel Hawthorne is associated with dark romanticism and moral allegory, Edgar Allan Poe with Gothic and psychological horror, and Ralph Waldo Emerson with Transcendentalism. So Irving best fits the combination of early American romantic supernatural tales and Sleepy Hollow.

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