Romanticism in Rip Van Winkle

I'd say that Rip Van Winkle definitely falls into the category of Romanticism. There are many reasons why. I'd say that the biggest one to speak of would be how it's a very magical kind of story. The best example would be the idea that a man could sleep in the Catskill Mountains for twenty years without waking or dying, and believe that he had slept but one night. Also how Henry Hudson and his crew of the Half-moon dwell in the mountains and that when they play the game of nine-pins "the sound of their balls" is described as being "like distant peals of thunder". It also says about Catskill Mountains that "the Indians considered them the abode of spirits, who influenced the weather". I think all of this mixed with the very folk-lore feel of the story makes it Romantic.