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1,230 words... rate a psychological thriller, and that the governess was insane, the apparitions being only figments of her imagination. Krishna Baldev Vaid is one of the critics who believe that James wrote The Turn of the Screw, as a great ghost story, and that the governess is a truthful and reliable narrator. Vaid notes that "James's narrators, as a rule, are endowed with a fine intuitive awareness" He also notes that "James repeatedly employs the intuitions of the governess to maintain suspense and to...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key
3,563 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. This rare ability, along with his rhetorical brilliance, has established Fitzgerald as one of the major novelists and story writers of the twentieth century. The source of Fitzgerald? s talent remains a mystery. Edward Fitzgerald, his father, came from tired, old stock with roots in Maryland. Edward Fitzgerald? s great-great-grandfather was the brother of Francis Scott Key? s grandfather, and if Scott Fitzgerald claimed a closer relatio...
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Edmund Wilson Writing Poetry
1,207 wordsWendy Hirsch Bogan was born Louise Marie Bogan in Livermore Falls, Maine, the daughter of Daniel Joseph Bogan, a superintendent in a paper mill, and Mary Helen Murphy Shields. She grew up in various mill towns in the Northeast, moving often with her parents and brother. Her parents marriage was volatile, and her mothers affairs haunted Bogan for much of her life. Although Bogan attended Boston University for only one year in 1915 - 1916, her early education at Boston Girls Latin School gave her ...
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Quot Quot Vincent Millay
5,216 wordsMillay's Poetry In A Greenwich Village ContextbyMillays Poetry In A Greenwich Village Context Nina Miller In the 1920 s, Edna St. Vincent Millay was Americas most read, most beloved poet. Critical biographer Elizabeth Atkins gives some indication of Millay's nationally " intoxicating effect on people" in describing the reception of her second collection, A Few Figs from Thistles: To say it became popular conveys but a faint idea of the truth. Edna St. Vincent Millay became, in effect, ...
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Francis Scott Key Zelda Sayre
3,057 wordsThe Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was the crowning achievement of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He received his education by attending St. Paul Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton University. In 1923 he married Zelda Sayre and they divided their time among New York, Paris, the Rivera, and Rome, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle, which included Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. After his achievement with his novel The Great Gatsby...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
9,144 wordsCleanth Brooks The bundle of quotations with which the poem ends has a very definite relation to the general theme of the poem and to several of the major symbols used in the poem. Before Arnaut leaps back into the refining fire of Purgatory with joy he says: " I am Arnaut who weep and go singing; contrite I see my past folly, and joyful I see before me the day I hope for. Now I pray you by that virtue which guides you to the summit of the stair, at times be mindful of my pain. " This ...
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Edmund Wilson Quot One
334 wordsEdmund Wilson The impression of [Genevieve] Taggard that one gets from [Traveling Standing Still] is a little unexpected. If one had tended vaguely to confuse her with a familiar school of women poets the school which one of their number has recently herself described as the " Oh-God-the-Pain Girls" Miss Taggard has excluded from this book anything that might encourage it What we... get is a poet of our common human experience who, despite her fastidious and busy mind, which embroiders...
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