Caribbean Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
From its earliest beginnings in the eighteenth century, Caribbean, or West Indian, poetry has been an elusive but dynamic art. Though sometimes static, it has always been an evolving art form. According to one scholar, Lloyd W. Brown, the first 180 years of West Indian poetry were uneven at best; however, Brown was apprising only the formal aspect of Caribbean poetry, a poetic tradition that was imposed on the peoples of the West Indies first by a slaveocracy and later by an imperialist regime. There has always been an oral tradition in the Caribbean, and although...
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