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Derek Walcott Criticism

Derek Walcott, a Nobel laureate and one of the most influential figures in contemporary English-language literature, has been celebrated for his profound engagement with themes of ethnicity, cultural conflict, and political inequality. His work, deeply rooted in his mixed European and African heritage, offers a complex exploration of Caribbean identity. Walcott's poetry is renowned for its sophisticated forms and evocative depiction of Caribbean life, as seen in collections like In a Green Night, Another Life, and the epic Omeros. Stephen Breslow notes Walcott's engagement with history and Western culture, which forms a deep investigation into the postcolonial Caribbean identity.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Walcott, Derek (Vol. 9)
  • Walcott, Derek (Vol. 14)
    • Different Voices, Different Tones
    • On Derek Walcott
    • Poems of Caribbean Wounds
    • Six Poets
    • Folie à deux
    • Displaced Person
    • Books in Brief: 'The Star-Apple Kingdom'
    • Embracing Adversity
  • Walcott, Derek (Vol. 160)
    • In Multitudinous Dialects
    • The Sea, the Sea
    • Coming Home
    • Paradise Lost
    • Making Blind Birds Sing
    • Derek Walcott: 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature
    • Review of The Odyssey
    • The Commonwealth: Pedestal or Pyre?
    • Living Ghosts
    • The Wound of History: Walcott's Omeros and the Postcolonial Poetics of Affliction
    • Derek Walcott: An Interview with Rose Styron
    • Buried Treasure
    • Breadfruit, Bach, and Kafka
    • The Apples of This Second Eden
    • Fanfares
    • Unphantasmal Peace
    • Review of The Bounty
    • Poetry Chronicle
    • Critical Overview and Conclusion
    • What the Twilight Says
    • What the Twilight Says
    • Playing the Roman
    • Position, Connection, Conviction
    • In Pursuit of Elegance
    • Derek Walcott's Omeros: Echoes from a White-Throated Vase
    • Visions of Light
    • Singing the Griot's Song
    • Review of Tiepolo's Hound
  • Walcott, Derek (Vol. 2)
  • Walcott, Derek (Alton)
    • Selected Books: 'In A Green Night'
    • In Solitude for Company: The Poetry of Derek Walcott
    • Metaphor and Plainness in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
    • Waiting for the End
    • Derek Walcott: The Man and His Ideas
    • West Indies II: Walcott, Brathwaite and Authenticity
    • Robert D. Hamner
    • Poet of Two Worlds
    • Having to Ask: The Loss of Self in Contemporary Culture
    • In Verse: 'The Fortunate Traveller'
    • Pale Assassin
    • Beach Poets
    • Private and Public Languages: New Poetry
  • Walcott, Derek (Vol. 4)
  • Walcott, Derek (Drama Criticism)
    • Author Commentary
    • Overviews And General Studies
    • Dream On Monkey Mountain
      • Racial Allegory
      • How to Discover the Corruption in Honest Men?
      • Once upon a Full Moon
      • A Black Man's Dream of Personal Freedom
      • Big Night Music: Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and the 'Splendours of Imagination'
  • Walcott, Derek (Poetry Criticism)
  • Further Reading