George Rostrevor Hamilton
- George Rostrevor Hamilton
Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888 - 1967) was an English poet and critic. He worked as a civil servant: his experience as an inspector of taxes meaning he could help out his friend Walter de la Mare. He was knighted in 1951.
He had a classical education at the University of Oxford, and later compiled anthologies of Latin and Greek verse for Nonesuch Press. He was a published war poet of World War I, known for the rather conventional and sentimental "A Cross in Flanders".
His book "The tell-tale particle" on the Auden Group made an impact by the expedient of counting the proportion of definite articles in Auden's verse, remarking that it was much higher than in older styles. In general he was a steady conservative in matters of literature.
He was a director of the Poetry Book Society, and well connected as a correspondent of many literary figures; including E. R. Eddison and Owen Barfield.
Works
*Stars and Fishes (1916) poems
*Escape and Fantasy 1918) poems
*Pieces of Eight (1923) poems
*The Soul of Wit (1924) anthology of epigrams
*The Making (1926)
*The Latin Portrait: an anthology (1929) Nonesuch Press edited with Charles Stonehill.
*Light in Six Moods (1930)
*John Lord, Satirist (1934)
*Wit's Looking-Glass (1934) anthology of French epigrams
*The Greek Portrait (1934) Nonesuch Press editor
*Unknown Lovers (1935)
*Poetry and Contemplation: A New Preface to Poetics (1937)
*Memoir 1887-1937 (1938)
*The Sober War and Other Poems of 1939 (1940)
*Apollyon and other poems of 1940 (1941)
*The Trumpeter of Saint George (1941) poems
*Landmarks; a book of topographical verse for England and Wales (1943) edited with John Arlott
*Hero or Fool? A Study of Milton's Satan (1944)
*Death in April (1944) poetry
*Selected Poems and Epigrams (1945)
*The Inner Room (1947) poetry
*The tell-tale article; a critical approach to modern poetry (1949)
*Essays & Studies 1950 - editor
*The Carved Stone (1952) poetry
*The Russian Sister (1955)
*Essays By Divers Hands XXVII (1955) editor
*Essays & Studies Jubilee Volume (1956) editor
*Guides and Marshals (1956)
*Collected Poems and Epigrams (1958)
*Walter Savage Landor (1960)
*Landscape of the Mind (1963)
*English Verse Epigram (1965)
*Rapids of Time, sketches from the past (1965)
References
*"Three Neo-Georgian Poets of Britain: Rupert Brooke, Frances Cornford and George Rostrevor Hamilton, with a Note on A.C. Swinburne" by F.W. Nielsen Wright
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