Ian Hamilton (critic)

Ian Hamilton ( born March 24, 1938 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England as Robert Ian Hamilton, † December 27, 2001 London ) was a British literary critic, biographer, poet and publisher.

Life

His parents moved in 1936 from Scotland to Norfolk, where Hamilton was born two years later. When he was thirteen years old, his father died. 1951 the family moved to Darlington in North East England. At the age of seventeen he published two editions of his first own magazine, which he called The Scorpion. After leaving school, he spent his National Service in Mönchengladbach, to then visit the Keble College, Oxford. There he founded the magazine Tomorrow, which published one of the first stage plays of Harold Pinter.

In 1962 he founded with Michael Fried, John Fuller and Colin Falck magazine The Review, which existed until 1972, where he in 1964 his first work Pretending Not to Sleep published. From 1965 to 1973 he worked for The Times Literary Supplement. His second book, The visit was moved in 1970 by Faber & Faber. Two years after the end of The Review, he began with The New Review, a new magazine, which brought forth to its end 1978 on 50 issues. Among the published in young writers there were, inter alia, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. After that he wrote as a freelancer for the New Statesman. After the death of his friend Robert Lowell (1977 ) he published his biography in 1982. Thereafter, he hosted from 1984 to 1987 for the BBC, the TV Guide Magazine bookmark.

Other well-known works he published in 1993 and 1994 on the footballer Paul Gascoigne.

Ian Hamilton died in 2001 from cancer.

The conflict with JD Salinger

After the completion of the work on Lowell Hamilton in 1983 began a critical biography of Jerome David Salinger, under the title In Search of JD Salinger - A writing life. Salinger refused any assistance and Hamilton undertook legal action against the publication of the book before the Supreme Court of the United States, where the extremely reclusive Salinger personally appeared as a witness. The publication he could not prevent, but reached cuts of the book and a Zitierverbot from his work, which also refers to the hitherto unpublished letter excerpts.

Writings

  • Pretending Not to Sleep. Poetry. In 1964.
  • The Visit. Poetry. In 1970.
  • A Poetry Chronicle. Essays. In 1973.
  • Returning. Poetry. In 1976.
  • Robert Lowell: A Biography. Biography of Robert Lowell. In 1982.
  • In Search of JD Salinger. (also A writing life. ) 1988 ( German: In Search of JD Salinger. ). biography of Jerome David Salinger. Translation of Hedda Pänke. Limes, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-8090-2275-6.
  • Fifty Poems. Poetry collection. In 1988.
  • Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951. In 1990.
  • Keepers of the Flame. In 1992.
  • Gazza Agonistes. About Paul Gascoigne in 1993.
  • Gazza Italia. About Paul Gascoigne. In 1994.
  • Walking Possession. Essays. In 1994.
  • Steps. Poetry. In 1997.
  • A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold. Biography of Matthew Arnold. In 1998.
  • Sixty Poems. Poetry collection. In 1998.
  • The Trouble with Money. Essays. In 1998.
  • Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets. , 2002.
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