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The Turn of the Screw. Any history of the criticism of The Turn of the Screw should begin with a discussion of Henry James's own statements about what is arguably his most enigmatic and controversial work. The Ghosts: Hallucinations Or Realities The first point to be made is that James did not come down unequivocally on one side or the other of the central controversy concerning The Turn of the Screw--focused by Edmund Wilson's famous assertion (in his 1934 essay) that "the ghosts are not real ghosts at all but merely the governess's hallucinations" (385).

Indeed, James's statements on that score are perhaps as enigmatic as the novella itself. For example, in the Preface to Volume 12 of the New York Edition of The Novels and Tales of Henry James (the volume in which The Turn of the Screw appears in definitive form),1 James asserts his intention to avoid "the new type... One problem with this quotation is the meaning of the word "psychical. " At the other end of the spectrum, Glen A. This is Glenn A. Literature Network Forums - Powered by vBulletin. Estela de Finnegan. The Thomas Gray Archive : Primary Texts : Poems : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" - University of Oxford. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 2 The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, 3 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 4 And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 5 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 6 And all the air a solemn stillness holds, 7 Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 8 And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; 9 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower 10 The moping owl does to the moon complain 11 Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, 12 Molest her ancient solitary reign. 13 Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, 14 Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 15 Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 16 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 17 The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, 18 The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, 19 The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, 20 No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 22 Or busy housewife ply her evening care:

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