William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henleywas an influential poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England that is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson had in the eighteenth century. He is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus," a piece which recurs in popular awareness. It is one of his hospital poems from early battles with tuberculosis and is said to have developed the artistic motif of poet as a patient, and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 August 1849
William Ernest Henley quotes about
wrath tears unconquerable-will
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade
life-and-death friendly medical
And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.