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<p><b><i>Omeros</i> is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott.<br><br></b>With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, <i>Omeros</i> simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events--the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement--and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.<br><br>“One of the gre
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Walcott, Derek
- Publisher
- New York: Noonday Press: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374225919
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (1,610 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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