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Charles Sears Baldwin
1867–1935
A longtime teacher of rhetoric and English, he helped shape how students and scholars thought about writing, style, and literary history in the early twentieth century. His books reflect a clear, scholarly approach to language and criticism that still feels purposeful today.
3 Audiobooks
Renaissance literary theory and practice : Classicism in the rhetoric and poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600
by Charles Sears Baldwin
Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : Interpreted from representative works
by Charles Sears Baldwin
Ancient rhetoric and poetic : Interpreted from representative works
by Charles Sears Baldwin
About the author
Charles Sears Baldwin was an American scholar of English and rhetoric, born in New York City on March 21, 1867, and best known for his work as a teacher and literary critic. He studied at Columbia College and later taught at Yale University, where he became a professor of rhetoric.
Baldwin wrote widely on composition, criticism, and the history of literary theory. His books include studies of rhetoric and poetics as well as classroom texts on writing, showing both his deep interest in literary tradition and his practical concern with how language is taught.
He died on October 23, 1935. Today he is remembered mainly as a careful scholar of style and rhetoric whose work linked older classical traditions with modern literary study.