Chapter 4: Wives and Husbands Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (1930-)

Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia West Indies, and attended St. Mary's College, St. Lucia and University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His verse includes Twenty-Five Poems (1948); Epitaph for the Young: Poems in XII Cantos (1949); Poems (1953); In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (1962); The Castaways and Other Poems (1965); The Gulf and Other Poems (1969); Another Life (1973); Sea Grapes (1976), in which "Sea Grapes" appears; The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979); The Fortunate Traveler (1981); Midsummer (1984); Collected Poems 1949-1984 (1986); The Arkansas Testament (1987); and The Bounty (1997). Omeros (1990) is an epic length version of Homer's The Odyssey adapted to the Caribbean, especially the island of St. Lucia. Walcott has also written plays, including Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), which won an Obie in 1971, and his essays appear in What the Twilight Says: Essays (1998). Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, and his Nobel lecture appeared as Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture (1998). Author Links Derek Walcott This site features the texts of a number of Walcott's works as well as a biography and bibliography. Derek Walcott Biography This site features a biography of Walcott and a photograph.

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