The Knickerbocker group

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The Knickerbocker group was a circle of early 19th-century New York writers, including figures like Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant, who helped shape a distinctly American literary tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of writers
literary circle
activeInCentury 19th century
activeInPeriod early 19th century
alsoKnownAs Knickerbocker writers
New York Knickerbocker school
associatedWith New York City literary culture
early American romanticism
city New York City
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalMovement American Romanticism
surface form: American romantic movement
focus creation of a national American literature
genre American literature
romanticism
hasMember Fitz-Greene Halleck
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
Henry Brevoort Jr.
James Kirke Paulding
Joseph Rodman Drake
Lydia Maria Child
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Robert Charles Sands
Washington Irving
William Cullen Bryant
William Leggett
influenced American literary nationalism
development of a distinctly American literary tradition
influencedBy British romanticism
European literary traditions
language English
literaryCenter Manhattan
location New York City
medium essays
poetry
prose
satire
namedAfter Diedrich Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker pseudonym of Washington Irving
notableWorkContext A History of New York
Thanatopsis
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
region Northeastern United States
theme American history
American landscape
New York City life
timePeriodContext antebellum America
post-Revolutionary United States

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Fitz-Greene Halleck memberOf The Knickerbocker group
this entity surface form: Knickerbocker Group