"Unbought and unbossed" & "Bloodied but unbowed"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> "My head is bloodied, but unbowed," wrote poet/journalist/slangman
> William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) in "Invictus."

Was Henley really a slangman, or was he on the title page to give
respectability to Farmer?

Fred Shapiro


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