Irving's Posterity

摘要: Like the narrators of all his major books-Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker, Jonathan Oldstyle, Fray Antonio Agapida-Washington Irving was a bachelor. In sketch called "Bachelors" he wrote, "There is no character in comedy human life that more difficult to play well, than an old Bachelor."' Reinventing role project took on, or less consciously, from early age. As young man, belonged intimate circle bachelors ("Cockloft," they it) with whom wrote Salmagundi; when others married, unusual passion about abandonment. He then came regard