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Ian Hamilton

Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.

Selected bibliography

  • Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth Century Poets (2002)
  • Sixty Poems (1999)
  • Gazza Agonistes (1998)
  • A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (1998)
  • Steps (1997)
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (1994)
  • Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography (1992)
  • In Search of J.D. Salinger (1988)
  • Robert Lowell: A Biography (1983)

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In the LRB archive

The Price · 21 February 2002

You Muddy Fools · 14 January 2002

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 14 January 2002

subscriber-only content ‘I intend to support white rule’ · 24 May 2001

  • Allen Tate: Orphan of the South by Thomas Underwood

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 19 April 2001

subscriber-only content Tough Guy · 8 February 2001

  • Keith Douglas: The Letters edited by Desmond Graham

subscriber-only content Going Flat Out, National Front and All · 14 December 2000

  • Diaries: Into Politics by Alan Clark
  • The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
  • The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Vol. III: From Major to Blair edited by Sarah Curtis

The Power of Des · 6 July 2000

Sorry to go on like this · 1 June 2000

Snoop Doggy Dogg for Laureate · 7 January 1999

France ’98 · 30 July 1998

How much? · 18 June 1998

  • Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998 edited by Huw Molseed
  • The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive ‘OK, holy man, try this’ · 22 June 2000

  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth

 not available in archive Ashamed of the Planet · 2 March 2000

  • No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser
  • Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Mary von Schrader Jarrell

 not available in archive Glittering Fiend · 9 December 1999

  • Berryman's Shakespeare edited by John Haffenden
  • John Berryman’s Personal Library: A Catalogue by Richard Kelly

 not available in archive A couple of peep-holes in the pillowcase and off wee go a-lynching · 30 September 1999

  • Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the Twenties by David Horowitz

 not available in archive Diary · 29 April 1999

 not available in archive A to Z · 4 March 1999

  • Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
  • A Critical Difference: T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-28 by David Goldie

 not available in archive Eric the Nerd · 29 October 1998

  • The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson

 not available in archive Hobnobbing · 1 October 1998

  • Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler

 not available in archive Redeemable Bad Guy · 2 April 1998

  • Toward the End of Time by John Updike  Buy this book
  • Gold Dreams by John Updike

 not available in archive Taste, Tact and Racism · 22 January 1998

  • Assassination of a Princess by Ahmad Ata
  • Diana: A Princess Killed by Love by Ilham Sharshar
  • Who Killed Diana? by Muhammad Ragab
  • Harrods: A Place in Knightsbridge by Tim Dale