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Great Poems Invictus by William Ernest Henley - 0 views

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    The Great Poets: William Ernest Henley 23 August 1849 - July 11 1903 is a poet,literary critic and British publisher. In 1875,he wrote from his hospital bed in the famous poem Invictus whose Latin title means invincible.He himself said that he wrote this poem as a show of resistance to pain after his foot amputation. When writing this text,William Henley was twenty-five years.He survives his surgery and live with one foot until the age of fifty-three.This poem is published for the first time in 1888 in a collection of Henley,in a series of four articles about life and death. - See more at: http://classicalnovels.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-great-poets-invictus-william-ernest.html
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    The Great Poets: William Ernest Henley 23 August 1849 - July 11 1903 is a poet,literary critic and British publisher. In 1875,he wrote from his hospital bed in the famous poem Invictus whose Latin title means invincible.He himself said that he wrote this poem as a show of resistance to pain after his foot amputation. When writing this text,William Henley was twenty-five years.He survives his surgery and live with one foot until the age of fifty-three.This poem is published for the first time in 1888 in a collection of Henley,in a series of four articles about life and death. - See more at: http://classicalnovels.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-great-poets-invictus-william-ernest.html
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