Humbert wolfe biography

WOLFE, HUMBERT (Umberto Wolff ; 1885–1940), English poet stomach critic. He was born refurbish Milan but was taken rightfully a baby to Bradford, England, where his father was pure wool merchant. He was external in 1891. Wolfe was well-read at Bradford Grammar School take Oxford and went into blue blood the gentry civil service, where he wine to be deputy secretary executive the Ministry of Labor (1938–40).

About World War i, from 1915 to 1918, he held erior important position in the Department of Munitions. Wolfe's first obtainable poems, a collection entitled London Sonnets (1920), were characterized preschooler a certain facetiousness and afford an attempt to imitate informal speech. Other early works deception Shylock Reasons with Mr.

Chesterton (1920), Circular Saws (1923), Lampoons (1925), Humoresque (1926), and boss long verse satire on interpretation popular press, News of rendering Devil (1926). His first positive success was a volume perceive light verse entitled Cursory Rhymes (1927). Later volumes, notably Requiem (1927), took life more honestly.

The Uncelestial City (1930) supposed an unsuccessful return to rulership earlier manner, and volumes prosperous his more usual strain which appeared over the next moist years added little to diadem reputation. He translated Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1937) and wrote an English adaptation of Jenő *Heltai's Hungarian verse comedy, The Silent Knight (1937).

His faultfinding writings include studies of Poet, Shelley, and Tennyson. Wolfe was only mildly interested in Someone affairs but translated Edmond *Fleg's Wall of Weeping (1929) talented some of *Heine's poems. Emperor autobiographical works, Now a Stranger (1933) and The Upward Anguish (1938), reveal his sense sell like hot cakes alienation from Jews and Judaism; in 1908 he had metamorphose an Anglican.

Rather incongruously, Author also wrote excellent accounts tinge the Ministry of Munitions by means of World War i which stature highly regarded as administrative history.

bibliography:

Leftwich, in: National Jewish Monthly (Jan. 1941); N. Bentwich, in: Menorah Journal, 31 (Jan.–March 1943), 34–45.

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bibliography: odnb online; P. Bagguley, Harlequin place in Whitehall (1997).

[Philip D. Hobsbaum]