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An essential book to develop mastery in reading, writing, speaking, and intellectual reasoning

In Plato's Republic Socrates proposes a course of study that may be the original presentation of the idea of the "Liberal Arts." These "arts" are divided into two groups of learning: the Quadrivium (number, geometry, music, and astronomy) and the Trivium (logic, grammar, and rhetoric). The study of the Trivium develops mastery in reading, writing, speaking, and intellectual reasoning.

The Trivium is key to a classical education

"Trivium" means the crossroads where the three branches of language meet. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, students studied and mastered this integrated view of language. Regrettably, modern language teaching keeps the parts without the vision of the whole. In the 1940s, Sister Miriam Joseph at Saint Mary's College rescued that integrated approach with The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric. The Paul Dry Books edition provides new graphics and notes to make the book accessible to today's readers.

* The nature and function of language
* General grammar
* Logic and reasoning:
propositions, syllogisms, and fallacies
* Induction and scientific method
* Rhetoric and communication:
poetics, figurative language, metrical discourse
* Enlivened by examples: from Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, the Bible, Homer, and other great writers

A perfect book for teachers, students, writers, lawyers, and all serious users of language. The Trivium invites the reader into a deeper understanding, one that includes rules, definitions, and guidelines, but whose ultimate end is to transform the reader into a liberal artist.

"Is the trivium, then, a sufficient education for life? Properly taught, I believe that it should be."
--Dorothy L. Sayers

"Whoever owns this book owns a treasure."
--Eva Brann

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  • Title The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
  • Author Sister Miriam Joseph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Paul Dry Books, Philadelphia
  • Publication date 2002-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780967967509 / 0967967503
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 0.88 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 2.24 cm)
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Grammar, English language - Rhetoric
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001058498
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

About the author

Sister Miriam Joseph (1898-1982) earned her doctorate from Columbia University. A member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister Miriam was professor of English at Saint Mary's College from 1931 to 1960. She was also the author of Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language and many articles on Shakespeare and on the trivium.

Marguerite McGlinn was an editor and writer whose essays and short stories appeared in English Journal, the New York Times, the Sun-Sentinel, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Paul Dry Books, May 2002. Paper Back. New. Contemporary readers of 'The Trivium' will have the exquisite pleasure of discovering, on every page and in every paragraph, utterly new and exotic ideas that, nonetheless, are parts of a very old tradition of analysis. These readers are much like G. K. Chesterton's explorers who, disoriented in a storm, are cast, unawares, on the shore of their native England and immediately awestruck with the scenes of a supposed new world. If our cultural amnesia is yet deeper than Chesterton's simile suggests, Sister Miriam Joseph (1898-1982), our guide in this new world, is appropriately determined and skillful. Her great achievement was to present the traditional arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric in an accessible and coherent whole for modern readers. Those who know their Aristotle will recognize Sister Miriam's foundational source as that collection of writings called the Organon. Yet where Aristotle is repetitious and sometimes confusing,… Read more
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