On the fifth of January 1885, in the bustling commercial heart of Milan, a child was born who would become one of Britain's most popular poets of the 1920s, yet whose name today is remembered primarily for a single, sardonic epigram. Humbert Wolfe was born as Umberto Wolff in Milan, Italy, to Martin Wolff, a German Jewish merchant, and Consuela Terraccini, an Italian Jew. This dual heritage, straddling Germanic and M…
“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
William Miller Herschell, born 17 November 1873 in Spencer, Indiana, and dead 2 December 1939 in Indianapolis, became one of the best-loved poetic voices of his state. He was not a poet who sought cosmopolitan authority, avant-garde difficulty, or the permanent attention of the national literary establishment. His poems grew instead from railway shops, newspaper offices, creek banks, limestone country, family memory,…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Light Verse Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Joy, Sorrow
