Poetry: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780199229116
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By (author) Bernard O'Donoghue,

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In this Very Short Introduction Bernard O’Donoghue explores the many different forms of writing which have been called ‘poetry’, from the Greeks to the present day. He considers the varying status and uses of poetry, and engages with contemporary debates as to what value poetry holds today.

SKU: 9780199229116

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ISBN: 9780199229116

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 11.1 × 1 × 17.4 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 176 pages
Dimensions 11.1 × 1 × 17.4 cm | 132
Publication Date 26 September 2019
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Bernard O'Donoghue

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Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. Also a poet and a literary critic, his poetry collection Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus, 1995) was awarded the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has authored and edited several titles, including The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (CUP, 2008) and Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Se lection (Faber, 2015). In 2006, his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin.

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