Spring 1979

Louis D. Rubin’s “The Boll Weevil, the Iron Horse, and the End of the Line: Thoughts on the South” Irby B. Cauthen’s “ ‘A Complete and Generous Education’: Milton and Jefferson” Helen White’s “Shelby Foote’s Iliad” Nancy Hale’s “The Real Thing” Stories by Louis D. Rubin, Irby B. Cauthen, Helen White, and Nancy Hale Poetry by Jorie Graham, Debora Greger, Linda Pastan, and Karen Swenson
Spring 1979

Volume 55, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1979 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1979

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

By Jorie Graham
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1979

Harvest

By Debora Greger
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1979

Eyes Only

By Linda Pastan
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Et in Arcadia Ego

By James Lott
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Starvation

By Karen Swenson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Cookbook, Spring 1979

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Stopping at Muna

By David Ray
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Scholar-Politicians and Sheriffs

By Michael Nelson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, June 1978

By Joseph Bruchac
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

The Improbable Spy

By Richard Jones
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Sunlight

By Joseph Bruchac
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

The Boll Weevil, the Iron Horse, and the End of the Line: Thoughts on the South

By Louis D. Rubin
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Faulkner Country

By Patrick Samway, S.J.
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Reprint, Spring 1979

/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

“A Complete and Generous Education”: Milton and Jefferson

By Irby B. Cauthen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Everything Is Real, But Some Things Are More Real Than Others

By David Kirby
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Shelby Foote’s Iliad

By Helen White
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Victorian Women

By Margaret Miller Hall
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

A Question of Timing

By Anne Hobson Freeman
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Joyce’s Wake Revisited

By Suzette A. Henke
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

See You Around

By Stephen Minot
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Montaigne Incarnate

By Charles H. Foster
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

The Real Thing

By Nancy Hale
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

The Green Room, Spring 1979

By Staige D. Blackford
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Remembering George Davis

By Elizabeth Moulton
/ ISSUE: Spring 1979

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1979

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