Derek walcott poems
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Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
Sir Derek Walcott KCSLOBEOMOCC | |
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Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008 | |
| Born | Derek Alton Walcott (1930-01-23)23 January 1930 Castries, Colony of Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands, British Empire |
| Died | 17 March 2017(2017-03-17) (aged 87) Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, professor |
| Genre | Poetry and plays |
| Literary movement | Postcolonialism |
| Notable works | Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007) |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 T. S. Eliot Prize 2010 |
| Children | 3 |
Sir Derek Alton WalcottKCSLOBEOMOCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1] His works include the Homericepic poemOmeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."[2] In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, inclu
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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, the West Indies, on January 23, 1930. His first published poem, “1944” appeared in The Voice of St. Lucia when he was fourteen years old, and consisted of forty-four lines of blank verse. By the age of nineteen, Walcott had self-published two volumes, Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (Barbados Advocate, 1949) and 25 Poems (1948), exhibiting a wide range of influences, including William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. He later attended the University of the West Indies, having received a Colonial Development and Welfare scholarship, and in 1951, he published the volume Poems.
In 1957, Walcott was awarded a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the American theater. He published numerous collections of poetry in his lifetime, most recently The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014); White Egrets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007); The Prodigal: A Poem (Farrar, Straus
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Derek Walcott: An Introduction
(a mirror site from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/walcott.htm)
The most important West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. Walcott has lived most of his life in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. In his works Walcott had studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures. Walcott himself is of mixed black, Dutch, and English descent. His poems are characterized by allusions to the English poetic tradition and a symbolic imagination that is at once personal and Caribbean.
"Poetry, which is perfection's sweat but which must seem as fresh as the raindrops on a statue's brow, combines the natural and the marmoreal; it conjugates both tenses simultaneously: the past and the present, if the past is the sculpture and the present the beads of dew or rain on the forehead of the past. There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation an
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