"Hopped up on Ezra Pound’s piratical attitude to moneymen as well as the doctrines of Imagism, [Ian] Hamilton launched himself, post-university, by starting The Review. He and a handful of like-minded contributors were soon feared as, in Craig Raine’s words, 'a tight little Baader-Meinhof group' gunning for overinflated reputations: Dylan Thomas-like bardic wafflers, desiccated Movementeers, pop poets, establishment worthies, the lot." Philip Womack • Telegraph

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