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Ashamed of the Planet

Ian Hamilton

  • 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

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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.

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