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"Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400: Interpreted from representative works" by Charles Sears Baldwin is a scholarly study written in the early 20th century. It traces how medieval theories of composition—rhetoric and poetic—both reflected and shaped education and literature, reading them through key texts and practices. The volume follows the transmission from antiquity, the dominance of style in the schools, and the complementary roles of sermons, letters, hymnody, and verse narrative, culminating in the vernacular achievements of Dante and Chaucer. The opening of this study sets out its plan and stakes: to read medieval rhetoric and poetic historically and in tandem, showing how they descend from late Roman schooling, absorb St. Augustine’s reforming impulse for preaching, and become largely a lore of style in the hands of the medieval grammarian.
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