In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Henry Lawson was born on June 17, 1867, in Grenfell, Australia. He wrote short stories and ballad-like poems, illuminating the lives of rural, working Australians. Lawson is often called Australia's greatest writer..
The life of Henry Morgan. Born in 1635 to a prosperous Welsh-farming family, Henry settled around 1660 in Britain's newly acquired Jamaica. By 1668, he was vice-admiral over 15 ships and the elected successor to Edward Mansfield, who headed all piracy based in Jamaica.