Ian Hamilton

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

In the LRB Archive:

• Two Poems · 14 January 2002

• ‘I intend to support white rule’ on Allen Tate · 24 May 2001

  • Allen Tate: Orphan of the South by Thomas Underwood

• Two Poems · 19 April 2001

• Tough Guy on Keith Douglas · 8 February 2001

  • Keith Douglas: The Letters edited by Desmond Graham

• Going Flat Out, National Front and All: Watch your mouth! · 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 writes about the screen rights to English Premier League Football · 6 July 2000

• ‘OK, holy man, try this’: The Hypothetical Philip Roth · 22 June 2000

  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth

• Sorry to go on like this on Kingsley Amis · 1 June 2000

  • The Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader

• 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

• Glittering Fiend on John Berryman · 9 December 1999

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

• A couple of peep-holes in the pillowcase and off we go a-lynching on the Ku Klux Klan · 30 September 1999

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

• Diary: Whoop, whoop, terrain · 29 April 1999

• A to Z: Schmidt’s List · 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

• Diary on Poets Laureate · 7 January 1999

• Eric the Nerd: The Utterly Complete Orwell · 29 October 1998

  • The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson

• Hobnobbing · 1 October 1998

  • Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler

• Diary watches the World Cup · 30 July 1998

• How much?: literary pay and literary prizes · 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

• Redeemable Bad Guy: Rabbit and Zooey · 2 April 1998

  • Toward the End of Time by John Updike
  • Golf Dreams by John Updike

• Taste, Tact and Racism on the death of Princess Diana · 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

• The least you can do is read it · 2 October 1997

  • Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis

• Frown by Frown · 3 July 1997

  • Autobiographies by R.S. Thomas
  • Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God by Justin Wintle
  • Collected Poems 1945-90 by R.S. Thomas

• Diary · 22 May 1997

• Just what are those teeth for? · 24 April 1997

• Diary · 22 August 1996

• Many-Modelled · 20 June 1996

  • Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders

• Heart-Stopping · 25 January 1996

  • Not Playing for Celtic: Another Paradise Lost by David Bennie
  • Achieving the Goal by David Platt
  • Captain’s Log: The Gary McAllister Story by Gary McAllister and Graham Clark
  • Blue Grit: The John Brown Story by John Brown and Derek Watson
  • Kicking and Screaming: An Oral History of Football in England by Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward
  • A Passion for the Game: Real Lives in Football by Tom Watt

• Four Poems · 3 August 1995

• There shouldn’t be a licence to get things wrong · 8 June 1995

  • Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the ‘New Yorker’ by Thomas Kunkel

• Smartened Up · 9 March 1995

  • Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy

• Neglect · 26 January 1995

  • An Unmentionable Man by Edward Upward
  • Journey to the Border by Edward Upward
  • The Mortmere Stories by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward

• Tel’s Tale · 24 November 1994

  • Venables: The Autobiography by Terry Venables and Neil Hanson

• Call me unpretentious · 20 October 1994

  • Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother by Terry Major-Ball

• Young Wystan · 8 September 1994

  • Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28 by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Being there · 7 October 1993

  • Up at Oxford by Ved Mehta

• Disastered Me · 9 September 1993

  • Rebecca’s Vest: A Memoir by Karl Miller

• Irving, Terry, Gary and Graham · 22 April 1993

  • Behind Closed Doors by Irving Scholar and Mihir Bose
  • Sick as a Parrot: The Inside Story of the Spurs Fiasco by Chris Horrie
  • Gary Lineker: Strikingly Different by Colin Malam

• Bugger me blue · 22 October 1992

  • The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite

• Evil Days · 23 July 1992

  • The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia by John Carey

• Whangity-Whang-Whang · 28 May 1992

  • Damon Runyon: A Life by Jimmy Breslin

• Cold Shoulders, Short Trousers · 12 March 1992

  • Will this do? by Auberon Waugh
  • Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper

• One for the road · 21 March 1991

  • Memoirs by Kingsley Amis

• What’s wrong with Desmond? · 30 August 1990

  • Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy by Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil

• Four Poems · 26 July 1990

• They never married · 10 May 1990

  • The Dictionary of National Biography: 1981-1985 edited by Lord Blake and C.S. Nicholls

• Dogface · 28 September 1989

  • Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
  • War like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties by Andrew Sinclair

• Two Poems · 2 March 1989

• Phil the Lark · 13 October 1988

  • Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite

• Excusez-moi · 1 October 1987

  • The Haw-Lantern by Seamus Heaney

• Diary · 9 July 1987

• Poem: ‘An Alternative Agenda’ · 25 June 1987

• Poem: ‘Larkinesque’ · 19 March 1987

• Real Questions · 6 November 1986

  • Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes

• Diary · 23 January 1986

• The Waugh between the Diaries · 5 December 1985

  • The Diaries of Auberon Waugh: A Turbulent Decade 1976-1985 edited by Anna Galli-Pahlavi

• Diary · 19 September 1985

• Diary · 15 November 1984

• Martin and Martina · 20 September 1984

  • Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis

• Diary · 15 March 1984

• Three Poems · 2 February 1984

• Diary · 6 October 1983

• Diary · 15 September 1983

• Mummies · 16 June 1983

  • Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer

• Diary · 3 February 1983

• Cinders · 21 October 1982

  • Women Working: Prositution Now by Eileen McLeod
  • An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey
  • All the Girls by Martin O’Brien

• Diary · 2 September 1982

• Diary · 5 August 1982

• Diary · 15 July 1982

• Diary · 1 July 1982

• Ugly Stuff · 15 October 1981

  • Beyond the Pale by William Trevor
  • The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
  • Lantern Lecture by Adam Mars-Jones

• The Comic Strip · 3 September 1981

• Fame · 2 July 1981

  • Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne by Clive James

• Hard Man · 16 October 1980

  • Walk Don’t Walk The Camp From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams

• Smileyfication · 20 March 1980

  • Smiley’s People by John le Carré

• Blowing It · 6 March 1980

  • Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz

• Snowdunnit · 8 November 1979

  • A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow

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