Ian Hamilton defined his poems with clarity in the Bulletin of the Poetry Book Society (Summer 1974) when he characterized them as "dramatic lyrics .... the intense climatic moment of a drama," adding that the reader must supply "the prose part ... the...

Ian Hamilton is perhaps best known for a literary biography that cannot legally be bought in the version in which it was first written. Having achieved a substantial reputation as a poet, editor, book reviewer, literary historian, and broadcaster, he...

Ian Hamilton Poet, biographer Sunday, December 30, 2001 London -- Ian Hamilton, a highly regarded British poet and biographer whose unauthorized life of J.D. Salinger was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, has died at the age of 61. Hamilton died...

IAN HAMILTON was a year ahead of me at Darlington Grammar School, the most sardonic, different sort of boy imaginable and a leader of opposition, writes Edward Pearce. Karl Miller [obituary, 1 January ] rightly mentions a fanatical Leavisite English teacher. Jim Osborn,...

In the following review, Pinsker asserts that Hamilton's Walking Possession is witty, enjoyable, and thought-provoking.

In the following essay, Hulbert discusses Hamilton’s Keepers of the Flame, and E. M. Forster: A Biography, by Nicola Beauman. Hulbert asserts that Hamilton's approach to his subject matter is scholarly and even-handed.

In the following review of Robert Lowell, Richman applauds Hamilton's extensive research into primary sources, but criticizes him for failing to adequately examine Lowell's intellectual development.