Poetry: A Very Short Introduction | Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue, author of Poetry: A Very Short Introduction, gives his top 10 things you should know about Poetry.
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Bernard O'Donoghue, Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford.
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 Selection (Faber, 2015). In 2006, his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin.
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