William Johnson Cory

William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), born William Johnson, was an English poet and for many years an influential assistant master at Eton College. Deeply read in Greek and Latin, he shaped a generation of pupils and wrote the words to the Eton Boating Song. He is remembered chiefly for Ionica and for his elegy "Heraclitus," a rendering of Callimachus that remains widely quoted.