{\b Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 14 March 1844

{\b Date of Death}.: 30 January 1881

{\b Works}.

Epic of Women  (1870), Lays of France  (1872), Music and Moonlight  (1874). 

{\b Featured Works}.

'Ode', 'Song', 'At the Last', 'The Line of Beauty', 'Herodias', 'Black Marble'.

{\b General Comment}.

Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy was a poet. Born in London, he was privately 
educated. He became a junior assistant in the library of the British Museum. 
Having been transferred to the National History Department, he became an 
authority on fish and reptiles.

During his lifetime he published various books of poetry, including the above, 
and with his wife co-wrote a book for children called Toyland . His poetry is 
generally associated with that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other 
Pre-Raphaelites in that it characterised by vivid images and innovative meter. 
Rossetti said: 'Colour and meter, these are the true patents of nobility in 
painting and poetry, taking precedence of all intellectual claims'.