Winter 1973

“In Loving Memory of the Late Author of the Dream Songs” by William Meredith
Winter 1973

Volume 49, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1973 cover

Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1973

Micronesia: Politics and Education

By James Gutmann
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1973

The Mad Hatter’s World

By Roger B. Henkle
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1973

Scott and the Corners of Time

By Edgar Johnson
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1973

The Military Community

By Robert Nisbet
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1973

Mutability Justifies Equanimity

By Leonard Moss
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 1973

A Christmas Carol 394.26

By Rebecca Morris
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 1973

Creatures of This Place

By Catherine Petroski
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 1973

The Magician’s Girl

By Chana Bloch
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 1973

I and Thou

By Chana Bloch
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 1973

Seven Songs for an Old Voice

By David Wagoner
 
/ ISSUE: Winter 1973

In Loving Memory of the Late Author of the Dream Songs

By William Meredith

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