Summer 1936

Calvin B. Hoover’s “The Dictators March: From Political to Economic Totalitarian” Charles A. Beard’s “Corporations and Natural Rights” Albert Guerard, Jr.’s “Robert Bridges” Herbert Read’s “The Artist as Individual” Stories by Calvin B. Hoover, Charles A. Beard, Albert Guerard, Jr., and Herbert Read Poetry by Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Dannenbaum, and Lawrence Lee
Summer 1936

Volume 12, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1936 cover

Table of contents

Criticism 
Poetry 

Contributor Profiles

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) was a poet, critic, novelist, teacher, and co-founder of the Southern Review. He was appointed the nation’s first Poet Laureate in 1986. Author of over two dozen books, he was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes, two for poetry and one for his novel All the King’s Men. He also published a book of short stories, several selections of critical and historical essays, a biography, and two studies of race relations in America.

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