Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College, is the editor and translator of the Modern Library edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy." He has published scholarly articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tasso in various journals and is a senior editor and frequent contributor to "Touchstone Magazine."
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dr... SEE MORE