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

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Average rating: 3.91 · 24,176 ratings · 724 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization 3.49 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization [With Headphones] by Anthony Esolen, Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, Anthony Esolen 3.92 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1580 — 85 editions	My rating:
	Paradise by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen (Translator ), Dante 3.79 avg rating — 2,567 ratings — published 1321 — 181 editions	My rating:
	On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura by Anthony M. Esolen (Editor), Anthony Esolen 3.86 avg rating — 1,703 ratings — published 55 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Purgatory by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen (Translator ) 3.91 avg rating — 4,599 ratings — published 1307 — 208 editions	My rating:
	Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen (Translator ) 3.93 avg rating — 32,370 ratings — published 1313 — 371 editions	My rating:

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“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

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