...Edith Buchanan Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Milton s True Knight Edith Buchanan The warp of Samson Agonistes is undeniably the story of Samson in Judges, interpreted by all the commentary and pictorial represen­ tation familiar to Milton, and the woof is Milton s own deeply...

...Benjamin Boyce 432 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented to Louis A. Landa. Edited by Henry Knight Miller, Eric Rothstein, and G. S. Rousseau. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970. Pp. viii, 359. $7.50. The value of Professor Landa s work at the University of Chicago...

...James Woodress The Strenuous Age in American Literature . By Knight Grant C. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1954 . Pp. 270 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 429 The Strenuous Age in American Literature. By Grant C...

...Charles S. Sydnor The Graduate School: Research and Publications . Edited with a Foreword by Knight Edgar W. Adams Agatha Boyd . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1946 . Pp. viii , 461 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book...

... overdue. It is understood that a biographical study is now being prepared by a skilled hand, and this book makes a contribution to that end. ROBERT H. WOODY The Critical Period in American Literature. By Grant C. Knight. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1951. Pp. ix, 207. $3.50...

...Alan K. Manchester Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains . By Bolton Herbert E. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company , and Albuquerque : The University of New Mexico Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 491 . $6.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 405...

...Charles Moorman Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Philosophical Knights of The Canterbury Tales Charles Moorman It is impossible to date with any precision the decline of chivalry. Even the most learned of its students disagree as to the time and place of its greatest...

...F. Elaine Penninger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Chaucer s Knight s Tale and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in The Canterbury Tales F. Elaine Penninger Among the small body of opinions about the Knight s Tale with which the rational mind can scarcely argue...

... of F. L. Lucas. DUKE UNIVERSITY HELEN BEVINGTON Some Shakespearean Themes. By L. C. Knights. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960. Pp. 183. $3.50. The aim of Professor Knights s volume is to suggest a point of view from which Shakespeare s plays can be seen as parts of a continuous exploration...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. An Approach to Hamlet . By Knights L. C. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1961 . Pp. 91 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 504 The South Atlantic Quarterly after King Lear. Of these, the volume treats only three in the concluding...

..., imaginative reading public; the other encourages and supports such a public. DUKE UNIVERSITY ELGIN W. MELLOWN Further Explorations. By L. C. Knights. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1965. 204 pp. $5.00. Professor Knights s first volume of explorations began with a reprinting of his memorable...

...Douglas Knight Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 The Dramatic Center of Paradise Lost Douglas Knight Whether it is regarded as an independent work or a heroic poem in the formal tradition, Paradise Lost calls attention to its action. The order by which it moves from part to part...

...Edgar W. Knight The Story of John Hope . By Torrence Ridgely . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. 398 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 478 The South Atlantic Quarterly as an instrument of nationalization ? Did the creation of a large national...

...Edgar W. Knight The University of Kentucky: Origins and Early Years . By Hopkins James F. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1951 . Pp. ix , 305 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews efforts to suppress undesirable expression and so...

...Edgar W. Knight J. L. M. Curry: Southerner, Statesman and Educator . By Rice Jessie Pearl . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 242 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 249 sentially Ishmael s quest for the Promethean-Oedipean...

...Edgar W. Knight The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky . By McVey Frank L. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1949 . Pp. viii , 321 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 532 The South Atlantic Quarterly this instance at least...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXVIII JANUARY, 1929 Number 1 CAN THE SOUTH ATTAIN TO NATIONAL STANDARDS IN EDUCATION? EDGAR W. KNIGHT University of North Carolina I iHE FACULTY of an American university recently J. received...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 STATE CONTROL OF EDUCATION EDGAR W. KNIGHT University of North Carolina THE ESSENTIAL purpose of the modern democratic state should be to formulate and follow intelligent and progressive policies for the protection...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 Reconstruction and Education in South Carolina (concluded) Edgar W. Knight University of North Carolina For the first time in her history South Carolina now had constitutional and legal provisions for an adequate school sys­ tem...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Reconstruction and Education in South Carolina Edgar W. Knight University of North Carolina Prior to the Civil War South Carolina failed to establish a system of public schools commensurate with its needs and resources, nor did...