Ian Hamilton
1500 entries.
This is the most comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English.
Celebrated poets offer intriguing views on their fellow poets, such as Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell, and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. 1,500 poets are covered from W.H. Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is world wide coverage, including America, Britain and Ireland, New Zealand, Trinidad and Zimbabwe. There are also entries on magazines, movements, and critical terms.
Ian Hamilton is the author of two books of verse, the biographer of Robert Lowell and J. D. Salinger, and works of literary criticism. From 1962 to 1979 he edited The Review and New Review.
