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Against oblivion some lives of the twentieth-century poets

Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets", wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have on posterity and 'against oblivion'. Examples of each poet's verse accompany Hamilton's text, making the book both a provocative primer and a kind of critical anthology. "The affective power of this book ... lies in its understatement and its understanding of what we might care about.

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