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Spring 1936
John Crowe Ransom’s “What Does the South Want?”
Louis Fischer’s “Europe: 1936”
Dixon Wecter’s “The Soul of James Boswell”
Josephine Pinckney’s “The Marchant of London and the Treacherous Don”
Stories by John Crowe Ransom, Louis Fischer, Dixon Wecter, and Josephine Pinckney
Poetry by Robert Frost and Ben Belitt
Spring 1936
Volume 12, Number 2
Table of contents
Criticism
Poetry
Contributor Profiles
Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of the leading American poets of the twentieth century and a frequent contributor to VQR. The author of more than twenty books of poetry, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his work and read “The Gift Outright,” first published in VQR, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961.
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was a teacher, poet, founder of the Kenyon Review, and a father of the New Criticism. From 1937 to 1959, Ransom served as a professor at Kenyon College and his distinguished students included Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, and E. L. Doctorow.
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