Autumn 2002

• The South in a Global World by James Peacock • Flying Horses on the Silk Road by Russell Fraser • Uncle Jeff Davis by Beauvais McCaddon • Fiction by Philip Gould, William D. Schaefer, Norman German • Poetry by Patrick Donnelly, Daniel Tobin, Jim Daniels, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Michael Chitwood, Robert Wrigley, David Musgrove, Ross Taylor, Eric Pankey
Autumn 2002

Volume 78, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2002 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Effie In Venice and the Roman Spring of Margaret Fuller

By Helen Barolini
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Uncle Jeff Davis

By Beauvais McCaddon
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Why I Don’t Read Books Much Anymore

By Morris Freedman
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Drawbridges on the Delaware

By W. D. Ehrhart
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

The South In A Global World

By James Peacock
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Flying Horses on the Silk Road

By Russell Fraser
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Notes on Current Books, Autumn 2002

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

The World of Milton Scholarship

By Perez Zagorin
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

A Catastrophic Battlefield

By Paul Duke
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Once More: the Actual and the Apocryphal

By Joseph Blotner
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

A Bestiary of Sin

By Jeffrey L. Kosky
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Lee’s Army Revisited

By George Walsh
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Daughters of A People and Culture

By Anne Goodwyn Jones
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Children of the Middle Ages

By Everett U. Crosby
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

A Mediterranean Goddess on the James

By Philip Gould
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Father’s Day

By William D. Schaefer
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Dead Dog Lying

By Norman German
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Skinning

By Michael Chitwood
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Dog

By Robert Wrigley
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Bear Dreams

By Robert Wrigley
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Buying A Coffin for the Recently Deceased

By David Musgrove
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Looking

By Ross Taylor
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

The 1st Cut

By Ross Taylor
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

My Mother’s Eye

By Daniel Tobin
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

An Eagle-Headed Genie Watering the Tree of Life

By Eric Pankey
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Burning the Sage

By Jim Daniels
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Final Thought

By Eric Pankey
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

The Church of Mr. Pea

By Jim Daniels
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Blue Plate

By Jesse Lee Kercheval
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

Digging

By Michael Chitwood
Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Autumn 2002

The Green Room, Autumn 2002

By Staige D. Blackford

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