Background
Brennan Patrick O'Donnell was born on February 23, 1958, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of Charles Edward and Mary Patricia (Brennan) O'Donnell.
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The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth’s metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth’s attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of “common life” and the highly complex and decidedly conventional metrical forms in which he presents this language. O’Donnell provides a detailed treatment of what Wordsworth calls the “innumerable minutiae” that the art of the poet depends upon and of the broader vision to which those minutiae contribute. Beginning with a reassessment of Wordsworth’s frequently misrepresented prose comments about meter, O’Donnell argues that these comments-considered in light of Wordsworth’s practice and within their 18th-century context are more unorthodox and challenging than previously thought. In emphasizing the physical body of the poem as the site of a dynamic tension between conflicting passions – “the passion of sense” and “the passion of meter.” Wordsworth places issues of metrical form and versification in the foreground of his theory of poetry. The core of this book is dedicated to a close examination of the elements of Wordsworth’s craft. It sets forth in detail the rules and conventions that govern the poet’s habits of metrical composition, identifying the idiosyncrasies that distinguish his practice from those of his predecessors and contemporaries. It also offers a close reading of a substantial body of Wordsworth’s poetry, with careful attention paid to complex relationships between the minutiae of its sensuous forms (metrical form, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, alliteration) and larger thematic, aesthetic, and sophic concerns. As a departure from much contemporary criticism that tends to treat poetry solely as text, The Passion of Meter demonstrates the benefits of studying the details of versecraft. O’Donnell sizes the importance of hearing Wordsworth’s poems as sonic performances in time as well as seeing them on the page.
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1995
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1997
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2016
Brennan Patrick O'Donnell was born on February 23, 1958, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of Charles Edward and Mary Patricia (Brennan) O'Donnell.
O'Donnell received his education at Pennsylvania State University in 1981. He obtained his Master of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983, and obtained his doctorate in 1987, specializing in English and American Literature and Language.
O’Donnell spent 17 years at Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), where he served as a professor of English and, from 1999-2004, director of the university-wide honors program.
An active contributor to national and international conversations about the current state and future prospects of Catholic higher education, O’Donnell also served from 1994–2000 as editor of the national magazine Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Lewis University and on the Board of Directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. He has also served as a board member at La Salle University, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu), the Lilly Fellows Program, and Collegium, a consortium of Catholic universities that strives to strengthen faculty understanding of and participation in the mission of Catholic higher education.
In 2009, O'Donnell came to Manhattan after five years of service as the dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, Fordham University. Since July 1, 2009, Brennan O’Donnell has served as the 19th president of Manhattan College and continues to hold a faculty appointment, as he did at Fordham and Loyola, as professor of English.
O'Donnell has authored two books on the poetry of William Wordsworth and co-edited The Work of Andre Dubus, a collection of essays published as a double issue of Religion and the Arts. In addition, O’Donnell has published articles, essays and reviews in some of the leading journals in his field.
In 2014, he won the prestigious Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award, which recognizes scholars whose work has “made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.”
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1995Brennan O’Donnell is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Modern Language Association, The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Wordsworth and Coleridge Association and Wordsworth Trust America.
O’Donnell is married to Angela Gina Alaimo, a poet and writer who teaches at Fordham. The couple has 3 children: Charles Brennan, Patrick Aloysius and William Michael.
