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Ian Hamilton

  • 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

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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.

From the archive

Who has the gall?
Frank Kermode on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: National Poetry Day

Awful but Cheerful
Gillian White: The Tentativeness of Elizabeth Bishop

Slowly/Swiftly
Michael Hofmann praises James Schuyler

‘I was there, I saw it’
Ian Sansom on Ted Hughes