“He does well to have humour, for humour makes men brothers, and is perhaps more influential in an essay than in most places else.”
About William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903
William Ernest Henley was born on 23 August 1849 in Gloucester, England, and died on 11 July 1903 at Woking, Surrey. He occupies an unusual place in English literary history: widely remembered by the public for a single short poem, “Invictus,” yet far more consequential in his own age as a poet, editor, critic…