James Southall Wilson

A national journal of literature & discussion

Fall 2024 Cover. Cover art by Johanna Goodman.

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

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