LONDON SONNETS No. XXVII in the "Adventures All Series", a series of young poets unknown to fame. First English edition, first printing. His first book. Wolfe was the best selling poet of the 1920s and 30s and was in the running for Poet Laureate in 1931. He was practically a household name in the last 15 years of his life. He published over 40 books of his own poetry and prose, 10 books of literary criticism, and numerous anthologies and literary translations. Stephen Fry described Wolfe's poetry as `one of England's forgotten splendours', said: `He has long and wrongly been forgotten, and it is impossible to see why.' Republishing Wolfe's poetry would allow a new generation to `discover for themselves a writer of wit, warmth, satirical ge
WOLFE, HUMBERT(1885-1940).
Published by Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford,, 1920
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