Spring 1938

Gerald W. Johnson’s “When to Build a Barricade” Jonathan Daniels’s “Gold Avenue” John W. Wheeler-Bennett’s “Ludendorff: The Soldier and the Politician” Mark Van Doren’s “Literature and Propaganda” Stories by Gerald W. Johnson, Jonathan Daniels, John W. Wheeler-Bennett, and Mark Van Doren Poetry by C. F. Macintyre, Robert Liddell Lowe, Edward Weismiller, and Elizabeth Randall
Spring 1938

Volume 14, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1938 cover

Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1938

Revolution in Rome

By Wallace E. Caldwell
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Additions to the Gallery

By Kerker Quinn
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Pavane of Seven Peacocks

By C. F. Macintyre
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

The Nice Use of Words

By Scott Buchanan
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

To a Wave

By C. F. Macintyre
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Normal Competitive Madness

By Charles B. Thompson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

I Woke From Middle Sleep

By Robert Liddell Lowe
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Militarism Marches On

/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

The Heart and Not the Sun

By Edward Weismiller
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Literature and Modern Man

By Joseph Warren Beach
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Enemy

By Edward Weismiller
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Cultural History

By Julius W. Friend
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

The Quick Still Center

By Elizabeth Randall
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Elizabethan Firebrand

By John Calvin Metcalf
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

When to Build a Barricade

By Gerald W. Johnson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Country of the Afternoon

By Elizabeth Randall
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Landlord and Tenant

By W. T. Couch
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Gold Avenue

By Jonathan Daniels
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Arrival From the South

By Louis J. Halle, Jr.
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Colony or Region?

By Francis P. Miller
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Ludendorff: The Soldier and the Politician

By John W. Wheeler-Bennett
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Memoir of Spring

By Elick Moll
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

The Green-Room

/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Literature and Propaganda

By Mark Van Doren
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

The Craft of Herman Melville

By R. P. Blackmur
/ ISSUE: Spring 1938

Democracy With a Union Card

By Max Lerner

Contributor Profiles

Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren (1894 –1972) was an influential literary critic, poet, and scholar who taught at Columbia University for almost four decades.

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