The Origin of Sin

I read the Hamartigenia mainly for theological reasons, and I was not impressed. However, I am glad I read it for the prestige it brings me when I go to the grocery store and tell the produce guy about it. He is so intimidated by the breadth of my reading that he has asked me not to return to his department, to buy my bananas elsewhere henceforth.

Actually, the essay which accompanies the poem in this volume is worth reading if one wants to know a lot about the intellectual and literary context of the poem, and the academese is not as thick as in some critical essays. If I were more interested in the poem itself, I would give this edition five stars, but since it was theologically irrelevant to me, I gave it only three.