Autumn 1977

John Seelye’s “The Measure of His Company: Richard M. Nixon In Amber” James A. Nuechterlein’s “Neo-Conservatism and Its Critics” Fred Hobson’s “James Mcbride Dabbs: Isaac Mccaslin In South Carolina” John Milton Cooper’s “Walter Hines Page: the Southerner As American” Stories by John Seelye, James A. Nuechterlein, Fred Hobson, and John Milton Cooper Poetry by Charles Simic, Mark Rudman, Quentin Vest, and Thomas Lux
Autumn 1977

Volume 53, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1977 cover
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Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1977

A Night’s Museum

By Lawrence Raab
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1977

Three Poems

By Jules Supervielle
 
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Signals

By Mark Rudman
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The Measure of His Company: Richard M. Nixon In Amber

By John Seelye
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At the Museum

By Anne Hobson Freeman
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The Green Room, Autumn 1977

By Staige D. Blackford
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Neo-Conservatism and Its Critics

By James A. Nuechterlein
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From This Wadi to That Mountain

By Florence Chanock Cohen
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1977

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Journalism

By Ward Just
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Cookbook, Autumn 1977

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
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Background Material

By Quentin Vest
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James McBride Dabbs: Isaac McCaslin In South Carolina

By Fred Hobson
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A Paean to Populism

By Nell Irvin Painter
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The Enemy the Wind

By Thomas Lux
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Walter Hines Page: the Southerner As American

By John Milton Cooper Jr.
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Dat Ol’ Debbil Byron

By J. D. O'Hara
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Spiders Wanting

By Thomas Lux
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A Rope in the Offing

By Donald Purviance
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Biography At Its Best

By Paul Roazen
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Armadillo

By Sandford Lyne
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Alfred Tennyson as a Poet for Our Time

By Edgar F. Shannon
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Poetically the Most Accurate Man Alive

By George Core
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Vulture

By Hank Lazer
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The Moral Prerogative In Oscar Wilde: A Look At the Fairy Tales

By John Allen Quintus
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James Joyce: A Portrait of the Critics

By Suzette A. Henke
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From the Notebook

By David St. John
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Scraps From Beckett’s Workshop

By David Gates
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Reprint, Autumn 1977

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Window Washer

By Charles Simic
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An Archipelago of Poetry

By Virginia A. La Charite

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