When Robert Louise Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, he partly based Long John Silver on this friend who required the amputation of one foot.
When Robert Louise Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, he partly based Long John Silver on this friend who required the amputation of one foot. His other leg was saved by the surgeon Joseph Lister of Edinburgh. During his subsequent 20-month hospital stay, he took up writing poetry, leading to volumes such as London Voluntaries and In Hospital. For ten points, name this poet who wrote "I am the master of my fate;/ I am the captain of my soul" in "Invictus".
When Robert Louise Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, he partly based Long John Silver on this friend who required the amputation of one foot.
William Ernest {Henley}