Poems of Arthur O'shaughnessy

Résumé du livre

This antiquarian volume contains a collection of Arthur O'shaughnessy’s poetry, with an introduction by William Alexander Percy. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844 - 1881) was a seminal British poet of Irish descent. This collection would make for a great addition to any personal library, and it is not to be missed by fans of O'shaughnessy’s wonderful work. The poems include: “Exile”, “The Fair Maid and the Sun”, “The Cypress”, “A Whisper from the Grave”, “Bisclavaret”, “Thought”, “Palm Flowers”, “John the Baptists”, “Salome”, “The Fountain of Tears”, “The Spectre of the Past”, “Lover after Death”, “From Music and Moonlight”, “Ode”, etcetera. William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942) was an American lawyer and poet. A fascinating and intellectually gifted individual, "A lantern on the Levee" (his autobiography), was a bestseller on its publication in 1941. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.