William Ernest Henley
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English poet, critic and editor
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Why Is William Ernest Henley Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, 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 might have been the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver , while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J. M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan .
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