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

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1936 cover

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.

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was a teacher, poet, founder of the Kenyon Review, and a father of the New Criticism.

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