Critical Perspectives on Derek WalcottRobert D. Hamner Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993 - 482 pagina's The articles in this collection are representative of the criticism that has followed Walcott's career from the 1940s into the 1990s. Ten entries by Walcott himself (including one not previously published and two vital interviews) are complemented by some 40 incisive essays and reviews, ranging from professional assessments to the rare, personal observations of Walcott's earliest mentors. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Society and the Artist 1957 | 15 |
Leaving School 1965 | 24 |
The Figure of Crusoe 1965 | 33 |
Tribal Flutes 1967 | 41 |
Culture or Mimicry? 1974 | 51 |
Anthony Milne | 58 |
The Art of Poetry 1986 | 65 |
Walcott Versus Brathwaite | 220 |
Painters and Painting in Another Life | 239 |
Breaking Myths and Maidenheads | 251 |
Interlude for Rest or Prelude to Disaster? | 265 |
Reminiscences of Derek Walcott | 272 |
Ripening with Walcott | 278 |
Edith Oliver | 286 |
Poems of Caribbean Wounds | 300 |
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION | 85 |
A West Indian Poet Fulfills His Promise | 96 |
Review of Henri Christophe | 106 |
Colourful But Academic | 113 |
Outrage and Compassion | 123 |
A Commentary on Certain Aspects | 139 |
Readings of Laventille sic | 168 |
Walcott and the Audience for Poetry | 174 |
Dreamers and SlavesThe Ethos of Revolution | 193 |
Derek Walcotts Dream on Monkey Mountain | 202 |
A Review of Derek Walcotts | 212 |
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