Brothers

Brennan O’Donnell is recently retired after 35 years as a professor and administrator at Loyola University Maryland, Fordham University, and Manhattan University. During his time in the classroom, he regularly assigned long poems, much to some students’ chagrin. Among his publications are two studies of the poetry of William Wordsworth: Numerous Verse: A Guide to the Stanzas and Metrical Structures of Wordsworth’s Poetry (Studies in Philology Texts and Studies) and The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth’s Metrical Art (Kent State University Press). He is the 2014 recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award, presented by the Westchester Poetry Conference to “scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.”