Хенли, Уильям: различия между версиями

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A commission had recently attempted to revive the school by securing as headmaster the brilliant and academically distinguished [[Thomas Edward Brown|T. E. Brown]] (1830–1897). Though Brown's tenure was relatively brief (c.1857–63), he was a "revelation" to Henley because the poet was "a man of genius—the first I'd ever seen". Brown and Henley began a lifelong friendship, and Henley wrote an admiring obituary to Brown in the ''New Review'' (December 1897): "He was singularly kind to me at a moment when I needed kindness even more than I needed encouragement".<ref>John Connell, ''W. E. Henley'', London, 1949, p.31</ref>