Robert Louis Stevenson based Long John Silver in part on this writer, not least because of hia amputated leg.
Robert Louis Stevenson based Long John Silver in part on this writer, not least because of hia amputated leg. As editor of the National Observer, he helped introduce the English public to such writers as Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling. One poem by this man called Pro Rege Nostro contains the question, "When shall [the Sun] rejoice again, such a breed of mighty men, as come forward one to ten?" and a line from that poem was adopted by D.H. Lawrence for the title of his short story, England, My England. Though he was the author of such collections as The Song of the Sword and The Song of Speed, he is better known for a poem published in 1875, whose last stanza claimed that it didn't matter "how strait the gate" or "how charged with punishments the scroll" and that "I am the captain of my soul." For ten points, identify this author of the collection In Hospital, best known as the poet of Invictus.
Robert Louis Stevenson based Long John Silver in part on this writer, not least because of hia amputated leg.
William Ernest {Henley}