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Fellow in English, Wadham College
CUF Lecturer
Mr Bernard O'Donoghue, BPhil, MA, born Cullen, Co Cork 1945. Undergraduate and graduate at Lincoln College, Oxford 1965-71. Lecturer at Magdalen College 1971-95.
Research Interests
Middle English literature, especially poetry: related European literature. 20th-century Irish literature, especially poetry in English.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Old and Middle English, and the English Language.
Graduate: Supervisor: Modern Irish Poetry and Medieval Poetry.
Current Projects
- Editing Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (publication late 2007).
- OUP's Very Short Introduction to Poetry (due late 2008).
- Preparing Selections from Chaucer for Faber 'Poet to Poet' series (due early 2008).
- Selected Poems, Bernard O'Donoghue (Faber, early 2008).
Major Publications - Selected Poems of Thomas Hoccleve (Carcanet 1982).
- The Courtly Love Tradition (Medieval European Love-Poetry) (Manchester University Press 1984).
- Verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics, 2006).
- Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (Harvester 1995): reprinted 2005.
- Oxford Irish Quotations (OUP 1999).
- 6 volumes of poetry, most recent Outliving (Chatto & Windus 2003). Gunpowder (1995) won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry.
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