Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (January 5 1885, Milan, Italy – January 5, 1940), was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father being a German Jew (Martin Wolff) and his mother an Italian Jew (Consuela, nee Terraccini).

He was one of the most popular authors of the 1920s. He is now remembered for his epigram:

:You cannot hope:to bribe or twist,:thank God! the:British journalist.:But, seeing what:the man will do:unbribed, there's:no occasion to.

He was also a translator of Heinrich Heine, Edmond Fleg (1874-1963)and Eugene Heltai. A Christian convert, he remained very aware of his Jewish heritage.

His career was in the Civil Service, beginning in the Board of Trade and then in the Ministry of Labour. By 1940 he had a position of high responsibility. His work was recognised with a CBE and then a CB.

Wolfe's verses have been set to music by a number of composers, including Gustav Holst in his "12 Humbert Wolfe Settings", Op. 48 (1929).

He had a long-term affair with the novelist Pamela Frankau, while remaining married.

He died on his 55th birthday.

Works

*London sonnets (1920)
*Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton: and other poems (1920)
*Circular saws (1923)
*Labour supply and regulation (1923)
*Lampoons (1925)
*The Unknown Goddess (1925) poems
*Humoresque (1926)
*News of the Devil (1926) poems
*Requiem (1927) poems
*Cursory Rhymes (1927) editor
*Others Abide (1927)
*Kensington Gardens (1927)
*Dialogues and monologues (1928) criticism
*This Blind Rose (1928) poems
*Troy (1928) Faber & Gwyer
*The Moon and Mrs. Misses Smith (1928)
*The Craft of Verse (1928) essay
*The Silver Cat and other poems (1928)
*Notes on English Verse Satires (1929)
*A Winter Miscellany (1930) editor
*Tennyson (1930)
*The Uncelestial City (1930)
*Early Poems (1930)
*George Moore (1931)
*Snow (1931) poems
*Signpost to poetry (1931)
*Reverie of policeman: A ballet in three acts (1933)
*Now a stranger (1933) autobiography
*Romantic and unromantic poetry 1933
*Portraits by inference (1934)
*Sonnets pour Helene (by Ronsard) (1934) translator
*X at Oberammergau : A poem (1935) drama
*The Fourth of August (1935) poems
*Selected Lyrics of Heinrich Heine (1935) translator
*P. L. M.: Peoples Landfalls Mountains 1936
*The Pilgrim's Way (1936)
*The Silent Knight : A romantic comedy in the year 1937
*Others Abide: Translated Greek Epigrams 1937
*The Upward Anguish (1938) autobiography
*Out of Great Tribulation (1939) poems
*Kensington Gardens in War-Time (1940) poems

References

*Philip Bagguley, "Harlequin in Whitehall: a Life of Humbert Wolfe, Poet and Civil Servant 1885-1940" (1997).

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