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Biography

Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) was a noted poet and translator. He was author of Europa and Other Poems and Sonnets and a translator of Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Juvenal's Satires, and other works. Humphries taught poety and creative writing workshops, including the Writer's Conference in the Rocky Mountains, held at the University of Colorado and the University of New Hampshire Writers' Conference. Humphries taught English at Amherst College until his retirement in 1965.

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Includes carbon copy of a typescript with manuscript corrections of The Satires of Juvenal: translated into English hexameters by Humphries. Sixteen satires. Amherst, Mass., May, 1958. April 1958 telegram from Edith R. Greenberg of Indiana University Press to Rolfe Humphries at Amherst College regarding scheduling of publication.

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Preferred Citation

Rolfe Humphries Translation of The Satires of Juvenal (MS 18), University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Machine-readable finding guide created by Susan Guinn-Chipman, March, 2008.

Related Material

See also MSS 162 and 204 for additional correspondence and translations by Rolfe Humphries. Special Collections holds an autograph copy of his translation of The Aeneid of Virgil (New York: Scribner, 1951) and an autograph presentation copy of Europa, and Other Poems and Sonnets (New York: C. Gaige, 1928).

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections has a sizable collection of Humphries Papers, 1896-1992.

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Humphries, Rolfe -- Manuscripts

Juvenal -- Translations into English

Translators -- United States

Verse satire, Latin -- Translations into English