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Derek Walcott A Caribbean Life

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ISBN-10: 019871131X

ISBN-13: 9780198711315

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bruce King

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This is the first full-scale literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St. Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-Creole Roman Catholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate of England. The author had had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the need to justify his life and fulfill his…    
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Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 730
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

Writer and editor who lives in Paris. He knew Graves in the 1960s and 1970s in Mallorca. His previous works include Three Indian Poets: Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Moraes (2005), The Internationalization of English Literature 1948-2000 (2004), and a biography of V S Naipaul.

St Lucia: Formation and Early Writings
1930: The Walcotts of St Lucia
1938-43: Making an Artist
1944-47: From Pantheist to Modernist
1948-49: 25 Poems, Epitaph for the Young
1950: The St Lucia Arts Guild
Jamaica, Grenada, Greenwich Village: First Exile
1950-54: University College of the West Indies, Poems, The Sea at Dauphin
1954-57: First Marriage, Ti-Jean and his Brothers
1958: The West Indian Festival of the Arts, Drums and Colours
1958-59: A Village Life
Trinidad: Second Marriage, Second Home, Professional Writer
1959-62: Little Carib Workshop Alan Ross Jonathan Cape, In a Green Night
1962-64: Robert Lowell, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Gerald Freund, Selected Poems
1965-66: The Castaway, Trinidad Theatre Workshop
1967-68: Rockefeller Grant, First Tours
1969-70: The Gulf, Dream, at Waterford and Los Angeles
Trinidad: Black Power, Preparing for Exile. Musicals
1971: Dream on Monkey Mountain, in New York, The New Yorker
1972: Ti-Jean in New York
1973: Another Life
1974: Joker of Seville
1975-76: O Babylon!, Sea-Grapes, Resignation
Tobago, St Croix, New York: Starting Again
1977-78: Remembrance, Pantomime
1979: The Star-Apple Kingdom
1980-81: New York
Boston: Third Marriage, Making It
1981-83: The Fortunate Traveller, The Last Carnival
1984-86: Midsummer, Collected Poems
Boston: North American?, Sigrid
1986-87: The Arkansas Testament
1988-89: International Man of Letters
1987-89: Teacher
1990-91: Omeros
1991-92: The Odyssey, The Nobel Prize
St Lucia, New York, London: Laureate
1993: Celebrations
1994-96: More Journeys and Homecomings
1996-97: The Bounty
1997-99: The Capeman, Essays, Crowned Again?
Notes
Acknowledgements
Sources
Bibliography
Index