Spring 1931

Aldous Huxley’s “Tragedy and the Whole Truth” Raymond Leslie Buell’s “The Liberian Paradox” Broadus Mitchell’s “A Blast Against Economists” Daniel Gregory Mason’s “The Lesson of the London ‘Proms’ ” Stories by Aldous Huxley, Raymond Leslie Buell, Broadus Mitchell, and Daniel Gregory Mason Poetry by Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer, Frances M. Frost, and Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy
Spring 1931

Volume 7, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1931 cover

Table of contents

Essays 
Criticism 
 

Contributor Profiles

Allen Tate (1899–1979) was one of the leading writers of the South in the twentieth century. As a member of the Fugitive Poets and the Southern Agrarian movement, through his poetry and essays, he championed a return to the South’s agrarian roots and the use of formal techniques in poetry. He served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1943 and was editor of the Sewanee Review from 1944 to 1947. In addition he taught at numerous universities, including Princeton University, New York University, and the University of Minnesota.

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was one of the major intellectuals of the twentieth century and author of numerous works, including the classics Brave New World and The Doors of Perception.

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