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Guestsplaining 007 - Anthony Esolen on Catholic Poetry

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Guestsplaining 007: Anthony Esolen on Catholic Poetry Join Fr. Bonaventure Chapman and Fr. Gregory Pine as they talk with Prof. Anthony Esolen, distinguished writer, scholar, and poet ("The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord") as they discuss poetry and the recovery of the human imagination. Support the Podcast- Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining?... Shop our store- https://godsplaining.bigcartel.com​​​... Connect on Social Media- Follow us on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/godsplainin... Like us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining... Follow us on Twitter- https://twitter.com/godsplaining​​​​​... More information on the Godsplaining Summer Retreat- https://godsplaining.org/events-1​​​​​​

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0:00.0

Welcome to God's Blaining, contemplative preachers, contemporary age.

0:10.0

Each week joined the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

0:19.6

Greetings fellow guest planers and God's planers. We are here. My name is Father Bonamenture Chapman. I'm joined by Father Gregory Pine.

0:27.0

But most importantly, since this is guest planning, I'm joined by a very special guest.

0:32.0

Professor Anthony Essen, who is, and I'm just going to read a little bit of the bio here, although hopefully he's known to you already.

0:40.0

Professor in Reuter in residence at Modlin or Magdalen College in

0:43.3

liberal arts in Warner, New Hampshire.

0:45.6

Lecture, translator, writer, poet,

0:49.8

is what folks on today, but a writer in many magazines and journals.

0:54.3

I know him from Chronicles magazine, which is one of my favorites,

0:57.1

and read him often there, but also on blogs, the Catholic thing,

1:00.7

crisis magazine editor. Writer of many non-fiction books, out of the ashes,

1:06.0

rebuilding the American culture,

1:07.0

10 ways to ruin your children's imagination.

1:10.0

Also, the most recent, I think, is Sex in the Unreal City in 2021 by

1:17.8

Magnatius. The book that we're going to at least talk about we'll talk

1:21.0

about many of these books is a recent one as well,

1:24.1

2019 The Hundred Fold, Songs for the Lord.

1:27.5

This is by Professor Esselin, who also, you may know him from translations of the classic words of Lucretius, his poetry on the nature of things, but also probably likely Dante's divine comedy for the modern living library.

1:42.0

There's plenty to go on there. I would say if you

1:44.6

don't know Professor Anthony Ecelyn at this point in your career in life, someone has

1:49.9

made a mistake. It might be you, it might be someone else, it won't be him, but we are

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