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WOLFE, HUMBERT (Umberto Wolff ; –), English poet and critic. He was born in Milan but was taken as a baby to Bradford, England, where his father was a wool merchant.

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He was naturalized in Wolfe was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Oxford and went into the civil service, where he rose to be deputy secretary at the Ministry of Labor (–40). During World War i, from to , he held an important position in the Ministry of Munitions.

Wolfe's first published poems, a collection entitled London Sonnets (), were characterized by a certain facetiousness and by an attempt to imitate colloquial speech. Other early works included Shylock Reasons with Mr.

Chesterton (), Circular Saws (), Lampoons (), Humoresque (), and a long verse satire on the popular press, News of the Devil ().

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His first real success was a volume of light verse entitled Cursory Rhymes (). Later volumes, notably Requiem (), took life more seriously. The Uncelestial City () represente