Took a peek at the reading list provided by the kind professor (who should have well been rid of me by now) and found the first item, Aristotle’s Poetics available online and checked it out.
Scanning it briefly, I found it more easily readable and enticing than Didascalicon, unless of course I located a version akin to My First Aristotle: A First-Grader’s Guide to the Classics.
Downloaded, printed and spiral-bound, it is here with me in the shop as I sit, and along with Ploughshares and other lit journals in turn will provide my next readings and commentary.