THE TRIVIUM IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND READING

grammar, logic and rhetoric. While most textbooks are lucky to enjoy a shelf life of three or four years, The Trivium followed a different path. In 1947, when Columbia University Press published her celebrated dissertation, Shakespeare s Use of the Arts of Language, Sister Miriam Joseph s previously published textbook gained wider notice. And since then, The Trivium continues to be rediscovered by new generations of writers and teachers. This dense, authoritative textbook takes all of Aristotle s teachings on logic, grammar, and rhetoric, and some of his teachings of poetics, adds some of the insights gained in the subsequent centuries, and presents it in a well-organized flow.