The Knickerbocker 48 (1856). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
The Knickerbocker Group was a 19th-century American literary circle.
Composition[]
The group began as a collection of 3 men, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant, who were American pioneers in the literary fields of general literature, novels, and poetry and journalism, respectively. Other talented poets, playwrights, writers, novelists, journalists, and editors joined this writer's club, dubbed the "Knickerbocker Group" after Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York and pen name, "Diedrich Knickerbocker".
In addition to Irving, Cooper, and Bryant, members of this group included James Kirke Paulding, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Joseph Rodman Drake, Robert Charles Sands, Lydia Maria Child, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.[1] Many were frequent contributors to the literary magazine The Knickerbocker, edited by Charles Fenno Hoffman.
See also[]
References[]
- The American Pageant by David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, & Thomas A. Bailey.
Notes[]
- ↑ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 30. ISBN 0-86576-008-X
External links[]
- About
- Knickerbocker School in the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Knickerbocker Writers at encyclopedia.com
- "The Knickerbocker Group in The American Spirit in Literature