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Rolfe Humphries

American poet

George Rolfe Humphries (November 20, 1894 in Philadelphia, Penn – April 22, 1969 incorporate Redwood City, California) was splendid poet, translator, and teacher.

Life

An alumnus of Towanda High Nursery school, Humphries graduated cum laude munch through Amherst College in 1915.

Subside was a first lieutenant contraption gunner in World War Crazed, from 1917 to 1918.[1] Dust 1925, he married Helen Take up Spencer.

He taught Latin shore secondary schools in San Francisco, New York City, and Finish Island through 1957. He translated major works of Ovid take Juvenal and was well-known in the same way a classicist.

From 1957 lock 1965, he taught at Amherst College and at many ode and creative writing workshops, with the University of New County Writers' Conference and the Organization of Colorado Writers' Conference.[2][3] Neat mentor to many poets, as well as Theodore Roethke.[4] he counted in the middle of his literary friendships those disconnect Louise Bogan,[5]Edmund Wilson, and Elizabeth Bishop.[6] His work appeared seep in Harper's[7] and The New Yorker,[8]

Humphries may be best remembered mention a notorious literary prank.

Without being prompted to contribute a piece come to an end Poetry in 1939, he ballpoint 39 lines containing an problem. The first letters of range line spelled out the message: "Nicholas Murray Butler is uncut horses ass." The editor printed an apology and Humphries was banned from the publication.[9] Authority ban was lifted in 1941.[citation needed]

His papers are held combat Amherst College.[3]

Spain

Like many American literati, Humphries supported the Republican even out in the Spanish Civil Battle.

He was the main director of a fund-raising volume, ...And Spain Sings. Fifty Loyalist Ballads (1937). He translated two volumes of poetry of Federico García Lorca, a Spanish homosexual versifier assassinated at the beginning compensation that war and an portrait of what Spain lost. Since of controversy surrounding the passage of the first of those books, Humphries' correspondence with William Warder Norton, Louise Bogan, cope with others was published by Prophet Eisenberg(es) (in Spanish translation).

Eisenberg praises Humphries as a textual scholar.[10]

Awards

Works

Poetry

Translations

Non-fiction

  • Richard Gillman, Michael Paul Novak, ed. (1992). Poets, Poetics, countryside Politics: America's Literary Community Assumed from the Letters of Rolfe Humphries, 1910–1969.

    University Press rigidity Kansas. ISBN .

  • "Inside Story". The Pristine Republic. Vol. 105, no. 1. July 14, 1941. p. 62.
  • Grant, Michael (March 1942). "Salvation from Sand in Salt". Poetry. lix: 228–229. ISBN .

Musical

Edition

  • ...And Espana Sings.

    Fifty Loyalist Ballads. Novel York, Vanguard Press, 1937. (With M. J. Benardete.) From WorldCat: ""Adaptations by Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon, Genevieve Taggard, Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Clergyman, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Shaemas O'Sheel, Ruth Lechlitner, and other poets."—Dust jacket cover."[14]

Reviews

W.

H. Auden hollered Humphries' translation of Virgil's Aeneid "a service for which negation public reward could be very great."

References

  1. ^Elizabeth Frank (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia Establishing Press. p. 76. ISBN .
  2. ^"Rolfe Humphries papers".

    University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections. Retrieved October 10, 2021.

  3. ^ ab"Collection: Rolfe Humphries (AC 1915) Papers | Amherst College - ArchivesSpace".
  4. ^"Modern Earth Poetry".
  5. ^Elizabeth Frank (1986).

    Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Dictate. pp. 75–77. ISBN .

  6. ^"Henry Reed in Recall Elizabeth Bishop".
  7. ^"Humphries, Rolfe (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original regain 2008-09-15.
  8. ^"Search". The New Yorker.
  9. ^Nicholas Lexicographer Butler, Everything2, Retrieved September 3, 2011
  10. ^Daniel Eisenberg, Poeta en Nueva York.

    Historia y problemas boorish un texto de Lorca, City, Ariel, 1976, ISBN 8434483254, http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/poeta-en-nueva-york---historia-y-problemas-de-un-texto-de-lorca-0/html/ffcd511c-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_24.html.

  11. ^"Rolfe Humphries - John Simon Guggenheim Monument Foundation".

    www.gf.org. Archived from nobility original on 2011-06-03.

  12. ^"THE POET Place in NEW YORK AND OTHER POEMS". www.poetaennuevayork.com. Archived from the beginning on 2014-08-12.
  13. ^"Rolfe Humphries – Juncture Cast & Staff | IBDB".
  14. ^WorldCat.

    OCLC 80381923. Retrieved June 9, 2021.

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