Dare to Dissent!

I first became acquainted with Professor Anthony Esolen as a superb translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy into English:

https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Modern-Library-Classics-Dante/dp/0812970063/ref=la_B001ITX3JW_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479948317&sr=1-5

https://www.amazon.com/Purgatory-Modern-Library-Classics-Dante/dp/0812971256/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0812971256&pd_rd_r=N90T5ANPSZGHW10N7M90&pd_rd_w=D2Ej6&pd_rd_wg=xysQ1&psc=1&refRID=N90T5ANPSZGHW10N7M90

https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Modern-Library-Classics-Dante/dp/0812977262/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0812977262&pd_rd_r=88PR0DBQSCQ7YWVYM3A8&pd_rd_w=qROz7&pd_rd_wg=lHd8Y&psc=1&refRID=88PR0DBQSCQ7YWVYM3A8

I thought so highly of him that, one Christmas, I gave a set of his translations to one of my sons, who is particularly interested in poetry.

Then I discovered that he is an outspoken and courageous defender of orthodox Christian thinking on gender and the family, and my admiration for him grew even more:

https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Marriage-Twelve-Arguments-Sanity/dp/1618906046/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479948587&sr=1-12

Now I learn that he’s under fire at his home college for daring to dissent from dominant academic liberal ideology:

“Anthony Esolen Faces the PC Onslaught”

And that makes me want to read his other work, as well:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Anthony+Esolen&search-alias=books&field-author=Anthony+Esolen&sort=relevancerank

Blessings on him.

Posted from Richmond, Virginia