What the Twilight Says (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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A poet of extraordinary achievement, Derek Walcott uses the essay form to communicate both his enthusiasms and reservations about writers as diverse as Robert Lowell, Ernest Hemingway, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Joseph Brodsky, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Les Murray, and Robert Frost. Although Walcott clearly has his favorites, he is remarkably open to many different kinds of writing and points of view. His main criterion is that the writing is good. With a good—or, better, a great—writer, Walcott can forgive much, even the racism he is dismayed to find in Frost, Naipaul, and...

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