Autumn 1936

Walter Millis’s “The Essence of the New Deal” Garrard Glenn’s “The Right of Sanctuary” Carleton Beals’s “Serenade in Mexico” G. R. Elliott’s “On Symbols” Stories by Walter Millis, Garrard Glenn, Carleton Beals, and G. R. Elliott Poetry by Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and Mark Van Doren
Autumn 1936

Volume 12, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1936 cover

Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1936

The Funeral

By Mark Van Doren
 
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

Romance Permitted

By John Donald Wade
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The Essence of the New Deal

By Walter Millis
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

Out of the Slough of Despond

By Kerker Quinn
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The Right of Sanctuary

By Garrard Glenn
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

Neutrality Dilemmas

By Hardy C. Dillard
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

Serenade in Mexico

By Carleton Beals
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

Reichsfuhrer

By Calvin B. Hoover
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

On Symbols

By G. R. Elliott
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

When the Right Loses

By R. K. Gooch
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Cider Pressing

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Southern Regions

By H. Clarence Nixon
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Proper Clay

By Mark Van Doren
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

What Happens to Shakespeare

By James Southall Wilson
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

An Approach to Dante

By Cuthbert Wright
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1936

The Green-Room

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Every One His Own Physician

By Archibald Rutledge
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The Trumpet

By Walter de la Mare
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Mars and Fortuna

By Thomas Perkins Abernethy

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