Ian Hamilton (literary critic)

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

Life

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

In 1962 he founded the magazine The Review with Michael Fried , John Fuller and Colin Falck , which existed until 1972 and in which he published his first work Pretending Not to Sleep in 1964 . From 1965 to 1973 he worked for The Times Literary Supplement . His second work, The visit , was published by Faber & Faber in 1970. Two years after The Review ended , he started a new magazine called The New Review , which by the end of 1978 had over 50 issues. Among the young authors published therein were a. also Martin Amis and Ian McEwan . He then wrote freelance for the New Statesman . After the death of his friend Robert Lowell (1977), he published his biography in 1982. He then moderated the bookmark TV magazine for the BBC from 1984 to 1987 .

He published other well-known works in 1993 and 1994 about the footballer Paul Gascoigne .

Ian Hamilton died of cancer in 2001.

The conflict with JD Salinger

After completing the work on Lowell, Hamilton began a critical biography on Jerome David Salinger in 1983 under the title In Search of JD Salinger - A writing life . Salinger refused to support Hamilton and took legal action against the publication of the book in the United States Supreme Court , where the extremely publicly shy Salinger also appeared personally as a witness. He could not prevent publication, but managed to shorten the book and prohibit quoting from his work, which also refers to the previously unpublished excerpts from letters.

Fonts

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

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personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH King's Lynn
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2001
Place of death London