Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
WARNING DO NOT ADJUST YOUR TELEVISION SETS -This is a virtual early television broadcast from the 1880's.
Here is William Ernest Henley virtualy reading his great poem celebrating human grit and determination without the need for the false reassurance of man made Gods."Invictus"
William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an influential poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England that is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. Remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus," a piece which recurs in popular awareness (e.g., see the 2009 Clint Eastwood film, Invictus), it is one of his hospital poems from early battles with tuberculosis and is said to have developed the artistic motif of poet as a patient, and to have anticipated modern poetry in form and subject matter. Moreover, as an editor of a series of literary magazines and journals—with right to choose contributors, and to offer his own essays, criticism, and poetic works—Henley, like Johnson, is said to have had significant influence on culture and literary perspectives in the late-Victorian period.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
WARNING DO NOT ADJUST YOUR TELEVISION SETS -This is a virtual early television broadcast from the 1880's.
Here is William Ernest Henley virtualy reading his great poem celebrating human grit and determination without the need for the false reassurance of man made Gods."Invictus"
William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an influential poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England that is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. Remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus," a piece which recurs in popular awareness (e.g., see the 2009 Clint Eastwood film, Invictus), it is one of his hospital poems from early battles with tuberculosis and is said to have developed the artistic motif of poet as a patient, and to have anticipated modern poetry in form and subject matter. Moreover, as an editor of a series of literary magazines and journals—with right to choose contributors, and to offer his own essays, criticism, and poetic works—Henley, like Johnson, is said to have had significant influence on culture and literary perspectives in the late-Victorian period.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
