A BRONZE bust of First World War poet Humbert Wolfe is to be unveiled at a ceremony this weekend.
The bust, which acknowledges Wolfe’s Bradford beginnings, was created by award-winning sculptor Anthony Padgett, who is also Wolfe’s great, great nephew.
He will present it to the district at the ceremony at Bradford’s City Library on Saturday at 3pm.
The bust is one of five created in different materials, bronze, silver, gold, marble and granite and each will be going to key cities with an association to his life and work. There will be busts of Wolfe in Oxford, London and New York and two in Bradford.
The son of a German wool merchant, Wolfe was born in Italy but raised in Manningham, Bradford and went to Bradford Grammar School.
His poems, in particular Requiem: The Soldier (1916), are read at Remembrance Sunday events.
Wolfe's verses were also set to music by a number of composers, including Gustav Holst.
In the 1920s and 1930s he became a bestselling poet and published more than 40 books of poetry and prose, 10 books of literary criticism, and numerous anthologies and literary translations.
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