How has Washington Irving influenced American Romanticism?

When we think of Washington Irving, what stands out most
of all is what he accomplished in his short stories. Above all what he did was help
America develop a distinctive and unique literary voice of its own by writing his
fiction. Romantic elements that we see are the way that Irving takes European based
legends and archetypes and re-writes them, planting them firmly in America, and thus
satirising and ridiculing various aspects of American History. A key aspect of Romantic
literature is the importance of myths and supernatural elements, and these can all be
seen in his most famous stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Rip van Winkle" and
"The Devil and Tom Walker." Although his fiction is the result of lots of borrowing from
European sources, Irving made his storytelling unique by incorporating his sardonic
voice to his work, making it distinctive and also transforming himself into a literary
celebrity.