Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844-1881) was a British poet best known for his much-anthologized “Ode.” O’Shaughnessy became a copyist in the library of the British Museum at age 17 and later became a herpetologist in the museum’s zoological department. He published four volumes of verse—An Epic of Women (1870), Lays of France (1872), Music and Moonlight (1874), and Songs of a Worker (1881)—and, with his wife, a volume of stories for children, Toyland (1875). O’Shaughnessy was strongly influenced by the artists and writers of the Pre-Raphaelite group, by contemporary French poetry, and by Algernon Charles Swinburne. O’Shaughnessy is chiefly remembered for the otherworldly later work that links him with the Symbolist movement. Source