Medieval rhetoric and poetic (to 1400)
Subtitle: interpreted from representative works
By: by Charles Sears Baldwin.
Publisher: Peter Smith
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Rhetoric, Medieval.; Poetics.
Notes: "References and abbreviations" at beginning of most of the chapters.
Table of contents: title: The Sophistic trend in ancient rhetoric.; title: St. Augustine on preaching (De doctrinachristiana, IV); title: The last Roman schools and the compends (fifth to seventh centuries); title: Poetic, old and new (fifth to seventh centuries); title: The Carolingians and the tenth century.; title: Rhetoric and logic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.; title: Latin poetic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.; title: Dictamen.; title: Preaching.; title: Poetic achievement in vernacular.