Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy ( born March 14, 1844 in London, † January 30, 1881 ) was an English poet and herpetologist.

Life

In his anthology Epic of Women O'Shaughnessy published in 1870 for the first time his poems. The next band " Lays of France" followed in 1872, also with moderate success. A year later he married Eleanor Marston, the daughter of author John Westland Marston and sister of the poet Philip Bourke Marston. They have two children, both dying in infancy. With Music and Moonlight appear in 1874 his last poems. Due to the ausbleibendes success of his works, he decides against the publication of other poems. A year later, the book Toy- land, a children's book, which he co-wrote with his wife appears. In 1879, two years before his death, his wife died. His last volume of poetry, Song of a worker appears in 1881 shortly after his death.

During his lifetime, yet misunderstood, O'Shaughnessy should gain its popularity until the beginning of the 21st century. One of his best known and most frequently quoted poems is the most Ode from his book Music and Moonlight (1874 ):

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea- breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; - World - losers and world - forsakers, the pale moon gleams On splat: Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, It Seems.

The poem was interpreted musically by Edward Elgar in his Opus 69 and can be found, inter alia, in the above-identified redacted form, plus parts of a later verse in the modern electronic music in the title "Reflector " the band " auto-aggression " again.

Also, it appeared in the 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on:

In the movie The Dead Poets Society, and of the resulting Novellisierung by Nancy H. Kleinbaum the student Cameron at a meeting of the club, the first three stanzas of the poem quoted in Chapter 7.

  • Author
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Poetry
  • Briton
  • Born in 1844
  • Died in 1881
  • Man
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