Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born in London on 14 March 1844 and died there on 30 January 1881, at the age of thirty-six. His life was brief, financially constrained, and repeatedly shadowed by bereavement, yet it produced a body of verse whose finest passages have retained an unusual power. He belongs to that fertile, sometimes neglected region of Victorian poetry situated between the late Romantics, the P…
“They are therefore essentially thoughts in marble, or poems of form, and it would therefore be unjustifiable to look in them for a sense which is not inherent in the purest Parian.”
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Li Shangyin, born around 812 and dead around 858, was one of the most brilliant, difficult, and emotionally resonant poets of the late Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Yishan; he also used the literary sobriquets Yuxisheng, “Student of the Jade Stream,” and Fannansheng, “Student of the Southern Mountains.” In the history of Chinese poetry, he is commonly placed beside Du Mu as a defining voice of the Late Tang, th…
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