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<p><b>A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career <br><br></b>"He gives us more than himself or ‘a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language." Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.<br> <i>The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948</i>–<i>2013</i> draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like "In My Eighteenth Year," published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like "A Far Cry from Africa," which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one's very blood; his mature work, like "The Schooner Flight" from <i>The Star-Apple Kingdom</i>; and his late masterpieces, like the tender "Sixty Years After," from the 2010 collection <i>White Egrets.<br> </i>Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of co

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Author

Walcott, Derek; Maxwell, Glyn

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466874459

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.35 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13