ANTHONY ESOLEN is a professor of humanities, and writer in residence, at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He has written or translated twenty-five books, on language, literature, culture, and the Christian faith, including a three-volume translation and edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, and, most recently, his own book-length poem The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He lives in Warner, New Hampshire, with his wife Debra and their two children, Jessica and David.