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: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 and Edmond Fleg (1874-1963). 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 ; his work was recognised with a CBE and then a CB . By 1940 he had a position of high responsibility.

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


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 thr 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



REFERENCE

  • ''Harlequin in Whitehall - a Life of Humbert Wolfe, Poet and Civil Servant 1885-1940'' (1997) Philip Bagguley


Add to Works: Others Abide Ernest Benn Ltd, London 1937. This is a collection of free translations of Greek epigrams.