Book description
'There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there
have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers.
But all 'little magazines' have been small in one or another of these
ways, and usually in both... And yet most of them have had arrestingly
large-scale ambitions...' From Ian Hamilton (1938-2001), himself the
founder of the Review and New Review, comes this matchless survey
(first published in 1976) of the literary magazine from 1912-1950:
concentrating on those periodicals that enjoyed dominant editorial
personalities (the likes of Pound, Eliot, Cyril Connolly) and which,
ultimately, proved central to their cultural epoch. 'Our one
consolation for Ian Hamilton's early death is that his work seems to
have lived on with undiminished force. He helped to shape our
generation and at this rate may well do the same for the next as
well.' Clive James
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.
