This book’s introductory “Author’s Account of Himself” likens it to the work of a landscape artist who paints nooks, corners, and by-places, but “not a single glacier or volcano.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book made up mainly of vignettes about English life, including four pieces set at Bracebridge Hall on Christmas. Its narrator talks to a book in Westminster Abbey in “The Mutability of Literature.”
ANSWER: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
[10e] This American author wrote The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, which includes stories attributed to another of his alter egos, Diedrich Knickerbocker.
ANSWER: Washington Irving
[10m] A piece from The Sketch Book about this activity agrees with an earlier author that “a man must be born to it.” Venator learns the joys of this activity in a 1653 book in which a milkmaid recites “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”
ANSWER: fishing [or angling; accept The Compleat Angler; accept “The Angler”] (Izaak Walton wrote The Compleat Angler.)
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