Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888 - 1967) was an English poet and critic. He worked as a civil servant and Special Commissioner. He was knighted in 1951.

He had a classical education at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, and later compiled anthologies of Latin and Greek verse for Nonesuch Press

Nonesuch Press

Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett.-History:Nonesuch Press's first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books. The press was at its peak in...

. He was a published war poet

War poet

A War poet is a poet writing in time of and on the subject of war. The term, which is applied especially to those in military service during World War I, was documented as early as 1848 in reference to German revolutionary poet, Georg Herwegh.-Crimean War:...

 of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, known for A Cross in Flanders.

His book The Tell-Tale Article on the Auden Group

Auden Group

The Auden Group is the name given to a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner...

 made an impact by the expedient of counting the proportion of definite article

Definite Article

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s in Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

'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

Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot and friends in 1953. Each quarter the Society selects one recently published collection of poetry for its members. The Society also publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin, and it administers the competition for the annual T. S. Eliot Prize...

, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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, and well connected as a correspondent of many literary and philosophical figures; including Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....

, Wilfrid Meynell

Wilfrid Meynell

Wilfrid Meynell , who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym John Oldcastle, was a British newspaper publisher and editor....

, Roy Fuller

Roy Fuller

Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.Poems was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s...

, Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

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, E. R. Eddison and Owen Barfield

Owen Barfield

Owen Barfield was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic.Barfield was born in London. He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford and in 1920 received a 1st class degree in English language and literature. After finishing his B. Litt., which became the book Poetic...

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Works

• Stars and Fishes (1916) poems
• Escape and Fantasy 1918) poems
• Pieces of Eight (1923) poems
• The Soul of Wit (1924) anthology of epigram
  Epigram
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• The Making (1926)
• The Latin Portrait: An Anthology (1929) Nonesuch Press
  Nonesuch Press
  Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett.-History:Nonesuch Press's first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books. The press was at its peak in...
  
   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
  Nonesuch Press
  Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett.-History:Nonesuch Press's first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books. The press was at its peak in...
  
   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
  John Arlott
  Leslie Thomas John Arlott OBE was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet, wine connoisseur and former police officer in Hampshire...
  
  
• 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)