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Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy , 1844-81, English poet and naturalist. He was a member of the zoological department of the British Museum. He wrote four volumes of poetry— Epic of Women (1870), Lays of France (1872), Music and Moonlight (1874), and Songs of a Worker (1881)—which all reveal the influence of D. G. Rossetti. One ode, beginning, "We are the music-makers," is his best-known poem.

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O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844–81), poet and friend of D. G. Rossetti. He published several volumes of poetry, his best known, ‘Ode’ (‘We are the music-makers’), appeared in Music and Moonlight (1874) and has been noted as a characteristic example of Victorian escapist verse.

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