James Southall Wilson

Biography

James Southall Wilson (1880–1963) was a nationally renowned scholar, the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and founding editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1925 to 1931.

See Work

Winter 1934

The Changing Novel

By James Southall Wilson
Autumn 1933

Ellen Glasgow’s Novels

By James Southall Wilson
Autumn 1936

What Happens to Shakespeare

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1930

A Plutarch for Virginia

By James Southall Wilson
Winter 1940

American Panorama

By James Southall Wilson
Autumn 1931

Shadows on the Rock

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1925

The Virginia Quarterly Review and Its Contributors

By James Southall Wilson

Its reviews will include chiefly four types: descriptive reviews, giving rather a reflection of the book than a discussion, thematic reviews that treat an important book or group of books from one significant point of view; essay reviews...

Spring 1945

Henry James and Herman Melville

By James Southall Wilson
Summer 1932

Back-Country Novels

By James Southall Wilson
Autumn 1927

American Poetry - 1927

By James Southall Wilson