A Book of Verses

by William Ernest Henley

About the Book

Books about Ancient, Classical and Medieval Poetry begin with the ancient epic poetry of Babylon and Greece. Poetry did not flourish in the Middle Ages, but experienced re-birth during the Renaissance. Titles include: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry, A Study of the Anglo-Saxon Poem, The Harrowing of Hell; Dissertation, Beowulf, an Old English Poem, Translated into Modern Rhymes, Das neue Leben; La Vita Nova, Homer. The Odyssey, Sonnets from Marcus Aurelius, Homer. The Odyssey, Longmans English Classics. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Lucretius, epicurean and poet, and Selections from ancient Irish poetry.

Also in this Book

Books about American Poetry present the poetry written by American poets, who first gained world prominence during the 19th century, and have presented a distinctly American world view. Titles include: An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems, Canzoni of Ezra Pound, Edgar Allan Poe, Cape Cod, Edward MacDowell; a great American tone poet, his life and music, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Harlem Shadows; The Poems of Claude McKay, Pocahontas, and Other Poems, Longfellow's Poetical Works, and Leaves of grass.

And in this Book

Titles presenting Biographies or Autobiographies about Literary personages, include authors, poets, screenwriters, journalists, and essayists ranging from the famous to the obscure. These include: Henry David Thoreau, Peter Henry Ling, Elisha Bartlett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Horatio Greenough, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Dante, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Balzac , Stendhal, Sand-Musset, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Verlaine, Zola, Sir Walter Scott, Bentley, Wordsworth, Fitzgerald, Goethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Byron, Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Amiel, Tolstoy, Pater, Newman, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Seneca, John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, Victor Hugo and Robert Sanderson.

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Genres: Poetry

175 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1893

About the author

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was also the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver (Treasure Island, 1883), while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J.M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904).

Reviews

[Justine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul


I didn't think I knew William Ernest Henley before reading Dans l'ombre de Paris by Morgan of Glencoe; there, I re-discovered "Invictus". And I was convinced Scribd would have, at least, one collection of poems by Henley.

Some poems really moved me: the first ones about being in an hospital, others disseminated in the collection about time, love, age.
I loved the rhymes, the rhythm, the sounds, the way it was written and I fell in love with "O gather me the rose" and "Invictus" - which, actually, is not the name given to the poem in this collection!

I'll probably read other collections by this author!

[Pudd'nhead Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent nightstand, back of the toilet book. It's definitely worth having. Try it. You'll like it.

[Hiba · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s such a classic poem, this is so damn beautiful. The way he described his feelings is unique.