Robert Siegel talks with Joseph M. Flora, professor of English at the University of North Carolina about the poem Invictus, by William Ernest Henley. Timothy McVeigh used the poem in lieu of his final ...
‘It matters not how strait the gate/How charged with punishments the scroll/I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul.” For those who slept through English lit, that’s the last stanza of ...