Autumn 1974

“Attractions and Dangers of Nostalgia” by Hayden Carruth
Autumn 1974

Volume 50, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1974 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

The Presidency: the Office, the Man, and the Constituencies

By William C. Havard
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

South Africa and the Walls of Troy

Photography by C.W. de Kiewiet
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Community and World Order

By Inis L. Claude, Jr.
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Jefferson’s Expression of the American Mind

By Julian P. Boyd
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Pound in Venice, 1965

By Carlos Baker
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

In a Field of Force

By Peter Makuck
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

The Ghost-Blue Jeep

By Bobette Gugliotta
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Broken Thumb

By Marie Borroff
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Tales of the Aztec King

By Robert Blake Truscott
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Regina Coeli

By Barbara Howes
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1974

The Etruscan Sun

By Robert Kelly
 
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1974

Attractions and Dangers of Nostalgia

By Hayden Carruth

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