Spring 1934

Donald Davidson’s “The Sacred Harp in the Land of Eden” Calvin B. Hoover’s “Dictators and Democracies” Helen Hill’s “Roosevelt’s New Party” Sean O’Faolain’s “Plea for a New Type of Novel” Stories by Donald Davidson, Calvin B. Hoover, Helen Hill, and Sean O’Faolain Poetry by T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Lee, and Conrad Aiken
Spring 1934

Volume 10, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1934 cover

Table of contents

Poetry 
 

Contributor Profiles

T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) authored dozens of books of criticism and poetry, most famously Four Quartets (Harcourt, Brace, 1943), The Waste Land (Boni & Liveright, 1922), and Prufrock, and Other Observations (Egoist, 1917). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Eliot’s essays on poetry, such as “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” are considered classics of modernist poetry theory.

Conrad Aiken (1869-1973) was born in Savannah, Georgia.  He received the 1954 National Book Award in poetry for Collected Poems (Oxford University Press) and served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952.

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