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George Rolfe Humphries (November 20, 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 22, 1969 in Redwood City, California) was a poet, translator, and teacher.


Life


An alumnus of Towanda High School, Humphries graduated cum laude from Amherst College in 1915. He was a first lieutenant machine gunner in World War I, from 1917 to 1918.[1] In 1925, he married Helen Ward Spencer.

He taught Latin in secondary schools in San Francisco, New York City, and Long Island through 1957. From 1957 to 1965, he taught at Amherst College and at many poetry and creative writing workshops, including the University of New Hampshire Writers' Conference and the University of Colorado Writers' Conference.[2][3] A mentor to many poets, including Theodore Roethke.[4] he counted among his literary friendships those with Louise Bogan,[5] Edmund Wilson, and Elizabeth Bishop.[6] His work appeared in Harper's[7] and The New Yorker,[8]

Humphries may be best remembered for a notorious literary prank. Asked to contribute a piece to Poetry in 1939, he penned 39 lines containing an acrostic. The first letters of each line spelled out the message: "Nicholas Murray Butler is a horses ass." The editor printed an apology and Humphries was banned from the publication.[9] The ban was lifted in 1941.[citation needed]

His papers are held at Amherst College.[3]


Spain


Like many American intellectuals, Humphries supported the Republican (left-wing) side in the Spanish Civil War. He was the main organizer 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 poet assassinated at the beginning of that war and an icon of what Spain lost. Because of controversy surrounding the text of the first of those books, Humphries' correspondence with William Warder Norton, Louise Bogan, and others was published by Daniel Eisenberg (es) (in Spanish translation). Eisenberg praises Humphries as a textual scholar.[10]


Awards



Works



Poetry



Translations



Non-fiction



Musical



Edition



Reviews


W.H. Auden called Humphries' translation of Virgil's Aeneid "a service for which no public reward could be too great."


References


  1. Elizabeth Frank (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-231-06315-9.
  2. "Rolfe Humphries papers". University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections. Retrieved October 10, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Collection: Rolfe Humphries (AC 1915) Papers | Amherst College - ArchivesSpace".
  4. "Modern American Poetry".
  5. Elizabeth Frank (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. pp. 75–77. ISBN 978-0-231-06315-9.
  6. "Henry Reed in Remembering Elizabeth Bishop".
  7. "Humphries, Rolfe (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2008-09-15.
  8. "Search". The New Yorker.
  9. Nicholas Murray Butler, Everything2, Retrieved September 3, 2011
  10. Daniel Eisenberg, Poeta en Nueva York. Historia y problemas de un texto de Lorca, Barcelona, 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 Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-03.
  12. "THE POET IN NEW YORK AND OTHER POEMS". www.poetaennuevayork.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12.
  13. "Rolfe Humphries – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB".
  14. WorldCat. OCLC 80381923. Retrieved June 9, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)





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