... Heaney’s ‘Exposure’ (which alludes specifically to Ovid’s Tristia), and Derek Walcott’s ‘The Hotel Normandie Pool’. The chapter ends with a detailed consideration of a very recent application of Ovidian poetics in Bob Dylan’s 2006 album Modern Times. Richard Thomas has persuasively shown that Dylan used...

... accounts, the second section explores Derek Walcott's fashioning of a New World Odyssey that writes back to Froude and Fermor, and shares tropes with other responses to The Odyssey in the Caribbean. Aegean archipelago civilization Fermor Patrick Leigh Froude J...

... (2002), the chapter traces variations on this theme in V. S. Naipaul (The Mimic Men (1967), and A Bend in the River (1979) ), and the poetry of Derek Walcott. These writers each play with the misquotation and mistranslation of Latin in modern Caribbean literature...

... that was thrust upon the British West Indies with the Victorian triad of the three Cs (Cricket, Classics, and Christianity). In a study that embraces Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, and Eric Williams, the author traces a distinctive regional tradition...

..., Erna Brodber, Paule Marshall, and Derek Walcott. It concludes with a meditation on the plant’s adaptability, including to climate change. breadfruit calypso Caribbean Growler Errol Duke plants roots Trinidad and Tobago World War II colonialism Darwin Charles evolution Pacific botanical...

... polarisation. While M. G. Smith and V. S. Naipaul regard these countries’ plurality as incompatible with nationalism, Scott and McWatt see it as the foundation for a national culture. Drawing on Derek Walcott’s aesthetic of hybridity and Wilson Harris’s ‘cross-cultural wholeness’, they revive imaginings...

...This chapter focuses on Derek Walcott's The Haitian Trilogy (2002), which brings together three old plays of this Nobel Laureate that all deal with the decolonization process in general, and the Haitian Revolution in particular. It argues that the trilogy lends itself to being read...

... and diasporic poets. It also compares the works of postcolonial poets such as Louise Bennett and Derek Walcott with those of British poets such as Philip Larkin and Tony Harrison. decolonization Said Edward Appiah Kwame Anthony Bhabha Homi Bible catalog verse Chaucer Geoffrey Homer place names Spivak...

... including Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Czesław Miłosz, and Derek Walcott turn to the lyric as an alternate and preferable world of its own, employing lyric tools to create speculative otherworlds designed to capture the intractable problems of the world we inhabit. cosmos Einstein Albert Miłosz Czesław...

...Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer: Landscape, History and Poetic Voice in Omeros. Rachel D. Friedman, Oxford University Press. © Rachel D. Friedman 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0007 This chapter focuses on the disruptive nature of books 4 and 5 of Omeros...

... Travelmodernism and Another Life Montgomery Richard postmodernism Ransom John Crowe St Omer Dunstan Tate Allen Africa as cultural presence in the Caribbean Benítez Rojo Antonio Black Power Dash J Michael postcolonial theory United States King Bruce Walcott Derek Alton Derek Walcott imagination St...

...This chapter presents a biographical sketch of Derek Walcott. Derek was born on 23 January 1930 in Castries, the largest town of St. Lucia. His father Warwick Walcott died on April 23, 1931, after surgery for a mastoid infection. Although the future poet, only a year old at the time, could have...

... Gilgamesh Moby Dick Melville Eliot T S Religion postmodernism Terada Rei on Omeros universalism Derek Walcott self-transformation marriage sailor-poet Shabine postcolonial Trinidad “Well, when I finished ‘The Schooner Flight,’ I thought that maybe I had done something,” Walcott...

... Hirsch Edward interviews with Walcott 1979 King Bruce Whitman Walt Baugh Edward on Another Life Dash J Michael Travelmodernism and Another Life Delacroix Eugène Marley Bob Shetley Vernon Bishop Elizabeth Derek Walcott Caribbean poetry The Fortunate Traveller In the 1980s, Walcott published...

... Whitman Walt Breen Henry H Derek Walcott Homeric analogy analogical method From very early in his career, Walcott aspired to write a West Indian counterpart of Homeric epic. But it would be strange if the sixty-year-old author of Omeros thought of the Greek parallels in the same way...

... Veronese Paolo Caribbean region Melbye Fritz Cézanne Paul Degas Edgar Dreyfus Alfred Gasquet Joachim Gauguin Paul in Another Life Monet Claude Walcott Warwick father Gray Thomas narrative form in Another Life Pissarro Adeèle Emma Burnett Paula Walcott Anna daughter Derek Walcott drawings...

... Harris Wilson Joyce James Marr Andrew Travelmodernism and Another Life Palladio Andrea Pound Ezra Schnittke Alfred Stern Robert Yeats William Butler Blake William Crane Hart Martí José Terada Rei on Omeros Whitman Walt Murray Les postmodernism “reversibility ” universalism Derek Walcott...

..., attunement to individuality, religious faith, and environmental consciousness. For John Figueroa, Derek Walcott, Lorna Goodison, Pamela Mordecai, John Robert Lee, Jane King, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kwame Dawes, and Vladimir Lucien, Hopkins has been an important example of linguistic resistance. His...

...This chapter opens up a dialogue between recent scholarship on Homeric similes, and the creative use of these similes in the poetry of Christopher Logue, Michael Longley, and Derek Walcott. In its reading of the modern poems, it analyzes how the Homeric simile is used to map the distance between...

...This chapter discusses the adaptation of the motif of katabasis in Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939/47) and in a short poem by Derek Walcott, ‘Homecoming: Anse La Raye’ (1969). It investigates what it may mean to return home in a postcolonial...