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Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Academie francaise, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to -correct- English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, -On Language, - provide help on diction and syntax to contemporary writers and speakers. Sister Miriam Joseph's book, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, invites the reader into a deeper...

Paul Dry Books' edition of this 1947 classic has been produced with the highest publishing standards as a companion to our edition of "The Trivium"

Sister Miriam Joseph s "Shakespeare s Use of the Arts of Language" remains, after more than half a century, an immensely valuable aid to serious students of the greatest of all writers. The book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that erudition to the needs of contemporary readers. Harold Bloom

The importance of this book is that it makes clear what we ought to mean when we call Shakespeare an artist in languageThe...