Anthony Esolen

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 College in 1990, becoming a full professor in 1995.

Books

• Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press, under contract for 2009)
• Translation of 105 of the Latin Psalms for the new English-Latin Breviary (Baronius Press, forthcoming in 2008).
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery, 2008).
• Introduction to Etienne Gilson's Dante the Philosopher.
• Ironies of Faith: The Deep Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature (ISI Press, 2007).
• Translation of Dante's Paradise (Modern Library, 2004).
• Translation of Dante's Purgatory (Modern Library, 2003).
• Translation of Dante's Inferno (Modern Library, 2002).
• Translation of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
• Translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
• Peppers (Baltimore: New Poets Series, 1991).

External links

• Anthony Esolen's entry in Providence College's website
• Anthony Esolen's personal website
• Anthony Esolen's Touchstone articles
• Finding the Masculine Genius An interview with the news service Zenit.
• Lost in Translation An article from the Claremont Review.
• Loss Upon Loss An article from the Claremont Review.