James Southall Wilson

James Southall Wilson (1880–1963) was a nationally renowned scholar, the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and founding editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1925 to 1931.

Published in VQR

• Second Debut of Emily Dickinson, Summer 1945
• Henry James and Herman Melville, Spring 1945
• The Novelist as Artist, Spring 1944
• Shakespeare in the Interpretation of the Time, Summer 1943
• Time and Virginia Woolf, Spring 1942
• Ellen Glasgow: 1941, Spring 1941
• The Founding of The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1940
• American Panorama, Winter 1940
• The Figure a Poet Makes, Spring 1939
• Ellen Glasgow: Ironic Idealist, Winter 1939
• Shakespeare and His Friends, Autumn 1938
• The Southern States in Fiction, Autumn 1937
• What Happens to Shakespeare, Autumn 1936
• Amy Lowell and Vachel Lindsay, Winter 1936
• The Faculty of Poets, Summer 1934
• The Changing Novel, Winter 1934
• Ellen Glasgow's Novels, Autumn 1933
• Enter a Novelist, Summer 1933
• Four English Novels, Spring 1933
• Poor-White and Negro, Autumn 1932
• Back-Country Novels, Summer 1932
• Before the Mayflower, Spring 1932
• Shadows on the Rock, Autumn 1931
• Robert Frost: American Poet, Spring 1931
• Emily Dickinson and the Ghosts, Autumn 1930
• The New Laureate, Summer 1930
• A Plutarch for Virginia, Spring 1930
• Whirligigs of Time and Taste, Winter 1930
• Leaders in the Desert, Autumn 1929
• Breaking the Solid South, Winter 1929
• American Poetry - 1927, Autumn 1927
• Poe and the Biographers, Spring 1927
• Fielding, Sterne, and Dickens, Autumn 1926
• The Young Man Poe, Spring 1926
• The Perennial Rooster, Winter 1926
• Apollo in Doubt, Summer 1925
• Romance Returns, Spring 1925