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O'Shaughnessy (ARTHUR WIL- LIAM EDGAR)

ARTHUR WIL- LIAM EDGAR, an English poet; born in 1844. In 1864 he entered the British Museum. He was a follower of Morris and Swinburne and of the French romantic school. He published between 1870 and 1881: "An Epic of Women"; "Lays of France," a free paraphrase of the lais of Marie de France; "Music and Moonlight"; and "Songs of a Worker."

He died in 1881.