Ian Hamilton in Conversation with Dan Jacobson

Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) was truly a British man of letters in the finest sense of the term. As a young man he co-founded the influential magazine, The Review, and started a short while later the magazine Tomorrow. He was for a time the fiction and poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and went on to found The New Review. But he was also a respected poet (Fifty Poems) essayist, and internationally known critic (Robert Lowell: A Biography, The Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry). Dan Jacobson, a prolific novelist, poet, and critic, worked closely with Hamilton during the last few months of his life to finish this in-depth interview, filled with Hamilton's usual candor and good humor. Includes a lengthy bibliography of works by and about Hamilton, series of critical comments, two uncollected poems, and previously unpublished photographs.