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Irving's Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost, Goldsmith's the Deserted Village, and Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.(Washington Irving)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070322
Author:Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning

In the preface to A Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost, which purports to be a letter to the editor of The Knickerbocker by one Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving implies that his life has come full circle. Revisiting the Hudson, he revisits the scene of his youth:

 
    Excuse this rhapsody, into which I have been betrayed by a revival 
    of early feelings. The Hudson is, in a manner, my first and last 
    love; and after all my wanderings and seeming infidelities, I return 
    to it with a heart-felt preference over all the other rivers in the 
    world. I seem to catch a new life ...

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