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The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord

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The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord

A Book-Length Sacred Poem

Anthony Esolen
Mar 4, 2023
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“How does one describe a work as rare, as priceless, as this? Nourishment for the malnourished soul. Food for those hungry for beauty. Manna in the desert of our postmodern waste land. Lembas for sojourners in Mordor. All we need to do is taste and see that it is good!” — Joseph Pearce

The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in his startling humanity. Using all the riches of the English poetic tradition―meter, rhyme, music―the poet ponders the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor.

Having devoted a career to studying and translating the Italian masters Dante and Tasso, Anthony Esolen puts on the dusty mantle of such English craftsmen as Donne, Milton, and Hopkins in his own book of original contemplative poetry. The Hundredfold includes dramatic monologues set in first-century Greece and Palestine; lyrical meditations on creation, longing, failure, modern em…

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