Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines…

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.

Authorized literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. Bruce King works from published and unpublished sources, personal interviews and correspondence to draw a detailed picture of Walcott…

This book investigates the potential purpose of recurrent communication images in the poetry of Derek Walcott. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992, Walcott is one of…

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter’s day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion…

A collection of poems by contemporary poet, Derek Walcott, whose subject is the panorama of life, landscape, culture and politics of the West Indies.

Deals with the subjects such as the Caribbean’s complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccommodating sublime of…

Omeros, a transatlantic Homeric epic poem, is widely considered the masterwork of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and one of the most important pieces of postcolonial Caribbean literature. Yet it is…