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Henley, William Ernest (1849 - 1903)

Index to poems

  1. Ballade of Dead Actors
  2. Barmaid
  3. Between the Dusk of a Summer Night
  4. Croquis
  5. Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things
  6. I. M. R.T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899) [Invictus]
  7. London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East
  8. Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
  9. The Rain and the Wind
  10. Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
  11. We'll Go no More A-roving
Given Name: 
William Ernest
Family Name: 
Henley
Birth Date: 
August 23, 1849
Death Date: 
June 11, 1903
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : William Henley
mother : Emma Henley
brother : Edward John Henley
brother : Anthony Warton Henley
wife : Anna Henley (from Jan. 1878)

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Victorian
Literary Movement: 
Unknown

Illness

Cause of Death: 
Nervous shock
Buried At: 
Cremated at Woking, ashes brought to Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire
First RPO Edition: 
1996-2000