Rolfe Humphries [SEP] place of birth
Rolfe Humphries
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 1917-1918. In 1925, he married Helen Ward Spencer.
He taught Latin in secondary schools in San Francisco, New York City, and
T. Irwin, John T., "The Crisis of Regular Forms" [Review of "On the Edge of the Knife" by Charles Edward Eaton; "Birth and Copulation and Death" by Harry Morris; "Coat on a Stick" by Rolfe Humphries; "The Geography of Lograire" by Thomas Merton; "New and Selected Poems" by David Wagoner; "The World Before Us: Poems 1950-70" by Theodore Weiss], "The Sewanee Review", Vol. 81, No. 1 (