“He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.”
About Sir Henry Taylor
18 October 1800–27 March 1886
Sir Henry Taylor occupies one of the more curious niches in nineteenth-century English letters: a poet who spent his working life not in garrets or universities but behind the desk of a government office, quietly shaping the administration of Britain's colonies while writing, in his spare hours, verse dramas that made…