Edward Pygge was a

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used by Ian Hamilton, John Fuller,

Clive James Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.Russell Davies Robert Russell Davies (born 5 April 1946) is a British journalist and broadcaster. Davies was born in Barmouth, North Wales. He attended Manchester Grammar School, according to his own statement on a November 2010 ''Brain of Britain'' programme ...

, and

Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with ''The Sense of an Ending'', having been shortlisted three times previously with '' Flaubert's Parrot'', ''England, England'', and '' Art ...

. Hamilton invented the name, and he and James used it for satirical poems attacking current poetic fashions in Hamilton's influential literary magazine ''The Review''. Davies also wrote poems and performed work using the name at a one-night show at the ICA in the Mall, unofficially called ''The Edward Pygge Revue''. John Fuller and

Colin Falck Colin Falck (14 July 1934 — 27 December 2020) was a British literary critic and poet. He was associate professor in modern literature at York College of Pennsylvania. In 1962 Falck co-founded the influential postwar British poetry magazine ''The ...

also wrote one or two pieces as Pygge for ''The Review''. Pygge made it to two double-page spreads in the ''

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'' and there inspired contributors to their poetry competition wanting to submit a spoof; thus Edwina Pygge, Kedward Pygge and Hedwig Pygge. Later, in Hamilton's next magazine, ''The New Review'', Barnes also wrote a column under the name. The name also appeared in a 2003

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programme discussing Barnes' 1984 novel, ''

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'', when the presenter,

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, read a question telephoned in by an "Edward Pygge."

Works

*''The Wasted Land'' (a

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's ''

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'') by James, first published under the name Pygge, is reprinted in James' collection ''The Book of My Enemy''.

References

*Introduction to ''Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985'' by Clive James, reprinted as an introduction in James' subsequent ''The Book of My Enemy'' . * Hamilton interviewed by

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, 14 January 2002 (on Fuller and Falck as Pygge

Notes

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