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Monday, 17 October 2011

Five poems everyone should know ( 3 )

"INVICTUS"

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

The latin word "invictus" means invincible. As a child, Henley had one of his feet amputated. He was ill most of his life and wrote during a two-year stay in a ward. He was a great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson and the character Long John Silver might have been inspired by him. - Arthur


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