Summer 1970

“A Note on Paul Valery” by Allen Tate
Summer 1970

Volume 46, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1970 cover

Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 1970

A Note on Paul Valéry

By Allen Tate
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Cat

By Florence Engel Randall
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Roses From My Father

By Inez Woodley
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

On Utilitarianism

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Waltzes for Mechanical Piano

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Harvest Scene

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Tarper’s Progress

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Musical Emblem

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Site of Future Construction

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

We Have Known

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Icarus II

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Light Poem

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Extension

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

A Memory

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

An Old Timepiece

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Pornographic But Serious History

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Life Cycle of the Snowman

By Rudy Shackelford
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Answer

By Marvin Bell
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Children

By Marvin Bell
Articles 
ARTICLES / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Relevance of Fiction

By Edward D. Sullivan
ARTICLES / ISSUE: Summer 1970

The Future of Political and Intellectual Freedom

By Herbert Wechsler
ARTICLES / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Toward a Philosophy of Educational Liberation

By James Gutmann
ARTICLES / ISSUE: Summer 1970

Skepticism on Capitol Hill

By Walter Goldstein

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