Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
Bernard O'Donoghue
Apr 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Roger Clark
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it-it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this-such as Shelley's that the poets "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," and that poetry is "a higher truth." In this Very Short Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called "poetry"-from the Greeks to the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poetry is for, and considers contemporary debates on its value. Is there a universality to poetry? And does it have a duty of public utility and responsibility?
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brings all the important threads together in defining what poetry is and what it does
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Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Also a poet and a literary critic, his poetry collection Gunpowder was awarded the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has authored and edited several titles, including The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney and Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection.
Roger Clark is a professional actor and voice-over artist who lives in New York City. He has performed in over forty-five countries.
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