The Author: John F. Britt is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Dayton. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from St. Louis University and his S.T.D. in Theology with a specialization in Marian Studies and John Henry Newman from the International Marian Research Institute (IMRI), the American branch of the Marianum in Rome, located at the University of Dayton. As a member of the Friends of Newman and the Catholic Theological Society of America he has contributed a variety of works on poetry, rhetoric and Newman, including John Henry Newman's Rhetoric published by Peter Lang Publishing.