The Works of William Ernest Henley; Poems

William Ernest Henley was an English poet and writer who published as W.E. Henley, sometimes as "W.E.H." William Ernest Henley was born on 16th of March 1849 in London, England to a family with strong connections to the East India Company. He went to Winchester College and then Trinity College, Oxford where he studied law and fell under the influence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nolan). He first came to public notice with some volumes of verse: The Song of the Sword, Songs from Vagabondia and Glare, Gleam and Glimpse. In 1877 he published his most popular work of prose, A Book about Myself. It includes reminiscences of Eton school life, portraits of contemporaries such as Arthur Hugh Clough and Robert Browning, and criticisms on art.