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Works on Ian Hamilton & His Writing

 

Another Round at the Pillars, edited by David Harsent
Cornwall: Cargo Press, 1999. 151 pp.

From the Jacket: For his sixtieth birthday friends of the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton, have gathered to offer an international festschrift to honour his writings and the remarkable influence he has exerted on his generation. The result is an unrivalled portrait of literary London for the last thirty years, a Who's Who? of Britain's best poets, novelists, and playwrights resulting in a unique document filled with wit and humour ... a must.

Contributors: A Alvarez, Julian Barnes, Peter Dale, Douglas Dunn, Colin Falck, Michael Fried, John Fuller, Simon Gray, Dan Jacobson, Clive James, Alan Jenkins, Ian McEwan, Karl Miller, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion, Charles Osborne, Harold Pinter, Peter Porter, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, and Hugo Williams.

 

Documentary

Ian Hamilton: A Writing Life. BBC 4, April 2002.

 

Profiles
(see also Interviews)

Williams, Hugo. 'Mr. Write'. Esquire, May 1998: 192-193.

Dale, Peter. 'Oxford Poetry: Ian Hamilton'. Oxford Today, Michaelmas Issue, 2001: 54.

Jensen, Morten Høi. 'Failing Better: Ian Hamilton and The New Review.' The Millions, 7 June 2012.

 

Obituaries & Memorial Articles

Morrison, Blake. 'Obituary: Ian Hamilton'. Guardian, 29 December 2001: 18.

'Ian Hamilton: Poet, Biographer'. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 December 2001: 5B.

'Ian Hamilton, 61, Noted Biographer, Poet, Critic'. Newsday (New York), 30 December 2001:
A51.

'Deaths Elsewhere'. Baltimore Sun, 31 December 2001: 4B.

'Ian Hamilton'. Times, 31 December 2001.

'Ian Hamilton Poet and Editor of The Review and The New Review Who Wrote Biographies of Robert Lowell and J.D. Salinger'. Daily Telegraph, 31 December 2001: 23.

'Obituaries: Ian Hamilton'. Scotsman, 31 December 2001: 14.

Oliver, Myrna. 'Obituaries: Ian Hamilton, 63'. Los Angeles Times, 31 December 2001: 9.

Sexton, David. 'Literary Critic Hamilton Dies at 63'. Evening Standard, 31 December 2001.

Cambridge, Gerry. 'Ian Hamilton: Poet, Biographer, Editor, and Critic'. Herald (Glasgow), 1 January
2002: 14.

Josyane, Savigneau. 'Ian Hamilton; le Biographe du Mythique J. D. Salinger'. Le Monde, 1 January
2002.

Miller, Karl. 'The Gaffer'. Independent, 1 January 2002: 10.

'Dichter en Schrijver Hamilton Overleden'. De Standaard, 2 January 2002: 11.

'Das Spiel ist Aus'. Suddeutsche Zeitung, 3 January 2002: 17.

Dennehy, Luke. 'Author Fought to Publish'. Herald Sun, 3 January 2002: 72.

'Mort de Ian Hamilton'. Liberation, 3 January 2002: 4.

Pearce, Edward. 'Obituary: Ian Hamilton'. Independent, 4 January 2002: 6.

'Distinguished Biographer, Critic, Poet and Editor'. Irish Times, 5 January 2002: 16.

Martin, Douglas. 'Ian Hamilton, 63, Whose Salinger Book Caused a Stir, Dies'. New York Times, 7 January 2002: 6. [A correction to information given in this obituary was printed on 11 January 2002: 2].

McEwan, Ian. 'Poetry and Pillar Talk'. Guardian, 8 January 2002: 8-9.

Porter, Peter. 'Remembering Ian Hamilton, 1938-2001'. Times Literary Supplement, 5155, 18 January 2002: 19.

 

Poetry About Hamilton

John Fuller. 'To Ian Hamilton'. Collected Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 2002. 108-12.

Clive James. 'At Ian Hamilton's Funeral'. CliveJames.com.

 

Scholarship

Silverberg, Mark. ' "A Bouquet of Empty Brackets": Author-Function and The Search for J. D. Salinger.' Dalhousie Review 75.2 (Summer-Fall 1995): 222-46.

Wall, Stephen. 'Ian Hamilton and the Poet's Life.' Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism 52.3 (July 2002): 209-21.

 

Reviews of Ian Hamilton's Works

For a list of reviews of Ian Hamilton's work, please visit the Reviews webpage.

 

Archives Containing Materials Related to Ian Hamilton

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MANUSCRIPTS DIVISION,
DEPARTMENT OF RARE AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, USA.
COLLECTION No. C0714
Working Papers for J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life. There are three boxes of material, containing writings, legal papers and correspondence relating to this book, a listing of which is to be found on the university's website, at: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C0714&kw=

BRITISH LIBRARY, ST PANCRAS, LONDON
General correspondence from the 1960s to the late 1980s; research, manuscript and typescript material, as well as some correspondence relating to A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold, Gazza Agonistes, Keepers of the Flame, In Search of J. D. Salinger, Writers in Hollywood, Robert Lowell: A Biography, The Little Magazines, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry, The Review, The New Review. This archive is still being catalogued, and is not yet open, although the library says that access can be granted in special cases.

NATIONAL SOUND ARCHIVE, BRITISH LIBRARY, ST PANCRAS, LONDON
COLLECTION No. C393
The holding comprises open reel tapes and audio cassettes, featuring IH in conversation with various figures. The open reel tapes contain rushes for a 'Lively Arts' programme on Robert Lowell, involving William Alfred, Seamus Heaney, Caroline Lowell, Eugene McCarthy, Frank Parker and Peter Taylor. The audio cassettes contain (a) discussions of Robert Lowell with Frank Bidart, Lillian Heilman, Cleanth Brooks, Gertrude Buckman, Blair Clark, Martha Ritter, Ann Dick, Grey Gowrie, Xandra Gowrie, Elizabeth Hardwick, Caroline Lowell, M. Heymann, William Meredith, Robert Penn Warren, Charles Monteith, Frank Parker, Lesley Parker, Jonathan Raban, Robert Silvers, Peter Taylor, John Thompson and Helen Vendler, and (b) interviews with Peter Ackroyd Gillon Aitken, Liz Calder, Anita Desai, Clarissa Luard, Pauline Melville, Sameen Momen, Vs. Naipaul, Keith Ravenscroft, Avril Ravenscroft, Philip Roth, and (c) BBC's 'Bookmark' programme on Salman Rushdie and BBC's 'Arena' programme on the life of Zola. This collection has yet to be catalogued, but it is open to the public. Details of the archive's listening service are to be found on its website: http://www.bl.uk/nsa

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, BROTHERTON COLLECTION
Letters from IH to Michael Hamburger, Alan Ross and others; manuscript and typescript material as well as correspondence relating to The Review. An itemised list of this correspondence - letters from some eighty correspondents to IH - can be found on the Brotherton Library's website:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/

UNIVERSITY OF HULL, BRYNMOR JONES LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Typescript, proof, illustrations and correspondence relating to The New Review. A brief description of the collection is to be found on the university's website: http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/literarymanuscripts/newreview.html

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER
ROBERT LOWELL COLLECTION, 1938-1983
Correspondence between IH and Blair Clark, as well as correspondence of others relating to Robert Lowell: A Biography. Further details can be found on the archive's website:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/

 
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