Anthony Esolen





Anthony Esolen

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Anthony M. Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College, and noted translator of classic works, as well as a popular writer for magazines like the Claremont Review and Touchstone, of which he is a senior editor. He has translated Dante's Divine Comedy, Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, and Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. He also writes a column for the Inside Catholic website.

After graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1981, he received his MA in 1983 and then his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of North Carolina. His dissertation was titled "A Rhetoric of Spenserian Irony." He taught at that university from 1985 to 1988 and then at Furman University from 1988 to 1990. He began teaching at Providence Co...more


Average rating: 3.93 · 39,561 ratings · 974 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
Ten Ways to Destroy the Ima...
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
The Politically Incorrect G...
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
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Ironies of Faith: The Laugh...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
The Beauty of the Word: A R...
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Living the Days of Advent a...
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Jerusalem Delivered
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Paradise
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“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.”
Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.”
Anthony Esolen

“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.”
Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child



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