Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
Published on 7. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-571-29534-0 (ISBN)
Description
Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly helpful apparatus. The result is an edition whose thoroughness and tact are themselves a moving tribute, restoring to view one of the most distinctive bodies of work in twentieth-century English poetry.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 132 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
194 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-29534-0 (9780571295340)
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Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
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04/2012
Faber & Faber
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Persons
Ian Hamilton was born in 1938, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Darlington Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford. In 1962, he founded the influential poetry magazine, the Review, and he was later editor of the New Review. He also wrote biographies and journalism, mainly about literature and football. He died in 2001.
Alan Jenkins has published five collections of poetry, of which the most recent is A Shorter Life (2005); he was a poetry critic for the Observer and the Independent on Sunday from 1985 to 1990, and is deputy editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
Alan Jenkins has published five collections of poetry, of which the most recent is A Shorter Life (2005); he was a poetry critic for the Observer and the Independent on Sunday from 1985 to 1990, and is deputy editor of the Times Literary Supplement.