William Ernest Henley was born in Gloucester, England, in 1849. He was a poet, critic, and editor who introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890's. He was the son of a Gloucester bookseller and a pupil of the poet T.E. Brown. Henley contracted a tubercular disease in his …
Poet’s Corner: William Earnest Henley
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