Winter 1939

Charles Pergler’s “Czechoslovakia: A Symbol and a Lesson” Ralph Bates’s “Of Legendary Time” Sean O’Faolain’s “AE and W.B.” Maury Maverick’s “Let’s Join the United States” Poetry by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, J. Patrick Byrne, and Marya Zaturenska
Winter 1939

Volume 15, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1939 cover

Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 1939

Two Poems

By Paul Valéry
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 1939

Poets and the European Sickness

By Richard Eberhart
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 1939

The Silken Tent

By Robert Frost
 
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

The Young Man and Society

By Wilbur L. Schramm
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

AE and W.B.

By Sean O'Faolain
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Two American Odysseys

By F. Stringfellow Barr
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Let’s Join the United States

By Maury Maverick
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Britain’s Future

By R. K. Gooch
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Stresses and Strains in Canada

By Virginius F. Coe
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Twofold Birth and Dying

By D'elbert Keenan
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Disinherited

By J. Patrick Byrne
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Music, Solid and Spacious

By Charles T. Harrison
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Balzac at the Paris Zoo

By Fernand Baldensperger
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Keepers of Democracy

By Eleanor Roosevelt
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Medicine and the Public

By John P. Peters
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

The Fabulous Tree

By Marya Zaturenska
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Ellen Glasgow: Ironic Idealist

By James Southall Wilson
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Reflection in Blue

By David McCord
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Japan: The Symptoms and the Disease

By E. H. Norman
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Czechoslovakia: A Symbol and a Lesson

By Charles Pergler
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Thunder Over Latin America

By James C. Bardin
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Of Legendary Time

By Ralph Bates
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Rich Poor Richard

By Julian P. Boyd
/ ISSUE: Winter 1939

Virginia Woodcuts

By Charles W. Smith

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