Completing the studies he began with Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic and Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic, the Columbia rhetorician traces European literature from about 1400 into the sixteenth century. He covers the struggle between Latin, Greek and the vernaculars, Ciceronianism, lyric and pastoral, romance, drama and the poetics of the age, with close readings of writers such as Spenser.
Published after Baldwin’s death in 1936, it remains a clear guide for students of Renaissance poetics and criticism. Download the free EPUB.