Edward Pygge was a pseudonym used by Ian Hamilton

Ian Hamilton (critic)

Robert Ian Hamilton was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher....

, John Fuller

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John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

, Clive James

Clive James

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, Russell Davies

Russell Davies

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 and Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...

.

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 wrote poems too and performed work at a one-night show at the ICA

Institute of Contemporary Arts

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 in the Mall

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, unofficially called The Edward Pygge Revue. John Fuller

John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

 and Colin Falck

Colin Falck

Colin Falck is a literary critic and poet. He was associate professor in Modern literature at York College of Pennsylvania....

 also wrote one or two pieces as Pygge for The Review.

Pygge made it to two double-page spreads in the New Statesman

New Statesman

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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.

Works

• The Wasted Land (a parody of The Waste Land
  The Waste Land
  The Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its...
  
  ) by James, first published under the name Pygge, is reprinted in James' collection The Book of My Enemy.