he chose 45 dead 20th-century poets and assessed their achievement with his customary economy and wit. The book was published posthumously. Hamilton died of cancer in 2001 in London. His first wife, Gisela Dietzel, and their son Matthew Hamilton survive him, as does his second wife Ahdaf Soueif and their two sons, and his long-term partner, Patricia Wheatley, by whom he had a son and daughter, Catherine and William Hamilton. In 2002, Between the Lines published Ian Hamilton in Conversation with Dan Jacobson, in which the novelist and academic Dan Jacobson interviewed Hamilton about his life and career. In 2009 Faber and Faber published his Collected Poems, with an introduction by Alan Jenkins. A selection of Hamilton's books by other poets were donated to Keble College, Oxford, where they are accessible to students as the Ian Hamilton Poetry Library. Bibliography Pretending Not to Sleep (1964), poetry pamphlet The Visit (1970), poetry book A Poetry Chronicle (1973), essays and reviews Returning (1976), poetry pamphlet The Little Magazines: A Study of Six Editors (1976) Robert Lowell: A Biography (1982) In Search of J.D. Salinger (1988), biography and critique Fifty Poems (1988), poetry collection Writers in Hollywood 1915–1951 (1990) Keepers of the Flame (1992), on literary estates Gazza Agonistes (1993), on Paul Gascoigne Gazza Italia (1994), on Paul Gascoigne Walking Possession (1994), essays and reviews Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry (1994), as editor Steps (1997), poetry A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (1998) Sixty Poems (1998), poetry collection The Trouble with Money (1998), essays Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets (2002) References External links 1938 births 2001 deaths 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English poets Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Anglo-Scots Deaths from cancer in England English male poets English people of Scottish descent People from Darlington People from King's Lynn