James Southall Wilson

Biography

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.

See Work

Winter 1929

Breaking the Solid South

By James Southall Wilson
Summer 1925

Apollo in Doubt

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1927

Poe and the Biographers

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1941

Ellen Glasgow: 1941

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1925

Romance Returns

By James Southall Wilson
Summer 1945

Second Debut of Emily Dickinson

By James Southall Wilson
Autumn 1926

Fielding, Sterne, and Dickens

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1932

Before the Mayflower

By James Southall Wilson
Spring 1926

The Young Man Poe

By James Southall Wilson
ESSAYS / Spring 1940

The Founding of The Virginia Quarterly Review

By James Southall Wilson