This is a collection of Ian Hamilton's critical writing, including pieces on the lives and work of Sylvia Plath, Evelyn and Auberon Waugh and Kingsley Amis, and assessments of poets such as Seamus Heaney, Roberts Frost, Robert Graves and Philip Larkin. Hamilton also journalism, magazines, key 20th-century novels, football, cricket and sex. His other books include "In Search of J.D. Salinger", "Writers in Hollywood", "Keepers of the Flame" and "Gazza Agonistes".