Rolfe Humphries and Henry Pettit

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.

Henry Pettit was Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was named Honorary Curator of Rare Books in Norlin Library in the early 1950's, managing the collections and encouraging the acquisition of such materials as eighteenth-century English literature and examples of early printing. Pettit was a scholar of the English poet Edward Young (1683-1765), compiling A Bibliography of Young's Night Thoughts (1954) and editing The Correspondence of Edward Young (1971).