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Derek Walcott

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Derek Walcott

23 Janurary 1930 – 2017

Derek Alton Walcott is a Caribbean poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. Born in Castries, Saint Lucia[1], he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture. He is best known for his epic poem Omeros, an allusive, loose reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey within the Caribbean and beyond to the Africa, New England, the American West, Canada, and London (with frequent reference to the Greek Islands). Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959, which has produced his plays (and others) since that time, and remains active with its Board of Directors. He also founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University in 1981 with the hope of creating a home for new plays in Boston, Massachusetts. Walcott retired from teaching poetry and drama in the Creative Writing Department at Boston University in 2007. In fall 2009, he will commence a three year distinguished scholar in residence position at University of Alberta. He continues to give readings and lectures throughout the world. He divides his time between his home in the Caribbean and New York City. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott

Bibliography

Books

30 books

Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces cover

Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces

1991

Burton Beers, Anna Ahkmatova, Dante Alighieri, Yehuda Amichai, Margaret Atwood, Basho, Charles Baudelaire, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Buson Yosa, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ch'ien T'ao, To Li Chien, Po Chu-i, Colette, Confucius, Julio Cortázar, Rubén Darío, Isak Dinesen, Jean de La Fontaine, Marie de France, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Gabriel García Márquez, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Günter Grass, Bessie Head, Heinrich Heine, Hitomaro Kakinomoto, Όμηρος, Lu Hsun, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Kobayashi, Hideo, Franz Kafka, Yoshida Kenko, Omar Khayyam, Komachi Ono, Pär Lagerkvist, Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Najib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, Guy de Maupassant, Czesław Miłosz, John Milton, Gabriela Mistral, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Pablo Neruda, Ōgai Mōri, Ovid, Blaise Pascal, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Octavio Paz, Luigi Pirandello, Plato, Pliny, Li Po, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Manuel Rojas, Pierre de Ronsard, William Shakespeare, Sei Shōnagon, Александр Солженицын, Sophocles, Wole Soyinka, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, Лев Толстой, Toshiyori Minamoto, Chrétien de Troyes, Tsurayuki Ki, Pak, Tu-jin, Lao-Tze, Paul Valéry, François Villon, Nguyen Thi Vinh, Virgil, Andrei Vosnesensky, Derek Walcott, Wang, Wei, William Wordsworth, 川端康成, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold cover

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold

1994

Sumner Braunstein, Isabel Allende, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Sui Wai Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, Robert Browning, Morley Callaghan, Lewis Carroll, Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης, Bruce Chatwin, Chiyojo, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain, Richard Connell, E. E. Cummings, Walter De la Mare, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Chief Dan George, William Gibson, O. Henry, Thor Heyerdahl, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, James Hurst, James Weldon Johnson, James Joyce, Donald Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gabriel García Márquez, Paule Marshall, John Masefield, Edgar Lee Masters, Guy de Maupassant, Anne McCaffrey, John McPhee, Gabriela Mistral, William Least Heat Moon, Grant Moss Jr., Saki, John G. Neihardt, Simon J. Ortiz, Gordon Parks, Marge Piercy, Edgar Allan Poe, James C. Rettie, Sally Ride, Tomás Rivera, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Leslie Silko, Gary Soto, Frank R. Stockton, Wisława Szymborska, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Yoshiko Uchida, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Margaret Walker, Ellen Harkins Wheat, William Wordsworth, Richard Wright

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition cover

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition

2002

Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea-Stump Ph.D., Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Joseph Addison, Anna Akhmatova, Yehuda Amichai, Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden, Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, Bashö, Charles Baudelaire, Bede, Bei Dao, James Berry, Tony Blair, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Robert Bolt, Jorge Luis Borges, James Boswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Brooke, Rupert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Buson Yosa, Lord Byron, Tracy Chapman, Geoffrey Chaucer, Winston S. Churchill, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confucius, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Anita Desai, Charles Dickens, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth l, Queen of England, Anne Finch, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nadine Gordimer, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Heinrich Heine, Robert Herrick, Όμηρος, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Ken Hughes, Ted Hughes, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Jeffrey, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Amelia Lanier, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Malory, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Catherine McGuinness, John Milton, Thomas More, Saki, V. S. Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Sir Isaac Newton, George Orwell, Ovid, Wilfred Owen - undifferentiated, Margaret Paston, Samuel Pepys, Francesco Petrarca, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Anna Quindlen, Walter Raleigh, Redgrove, Peter., Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Sillitoe, Stevie Smith, Sydney Smith, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Suckling, John Sir, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Emma Thompson, William Trevor, Tu Fu, Suzanne Vega, Derek Walcott, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats

Prentice Hall Literature cover

Prentice Hall Literature

2007

Kevin Feldman, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ama Ata Aidoo, Joan Aiken, Henry Alford, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Alan Axelrod, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, Gary Blackwood, Richard Brautigan, Rachel Carson, Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης, Chiyojo, Wayson Choy, Sandra Cisneros, Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Guy de Maupassant, Jean de Sponde, Emily Dickinson, Lian Dolan, Arthur Conan Doyle, T. S. Eliot, Martín Espada, Felton, Harold W., Michael Frayn, Robert Frost, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamil, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, O. Henry, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, James Hurst, Janet Kay Jensen, Lady Bird Johnson, John Kilgo, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Adam Kirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Nelson Mandela, Scott McCloud, Elizabeth McCracken, John McPhee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Pat Mora, Edwin Muir, Saki, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Amy Ash Nixon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ovid, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Postman, Sally Ride, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean Smith, Gary Soto, William Stafford, May Swenson, Amy Tan, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Georges-G Toudouze, Mark Twain, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, Kevin Feldman

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold cover

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold

1999

Carol Domblewski, Henry Aaron, Joan Aiken, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Harold Apter, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, The Beatles, Ray Bradbury, Richard Brautigan, Gladys Cardiff, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης, Alex Chadwick, Антон Павлович Чехов, Chiyojo, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Harold Courtlander, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Keay Davidson, Walter De la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daphne du Maurier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, Horton Foote, Robert Frost, Bill Gates, Chief Dan George, Steven Gietschier, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, James Haskins, Ralph Helfer, O. Henry, George Herzog, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Hurst, Shirley Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, John Keats, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gary Larson, John Lennon, Henriqueta Lisboa, Barry Lopez, Nelson Mandela, Guy de Maupassant, Paul McCartney, Scott McCloud, John McPhee, James A. Michener, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Joni Mitchell, Ronald D. Moore, Lillian Morrison, Edwin Muir, Saki, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosa Parks, Marge Piercy, Edgar Allan Poe, Ishmael Reed, Sally Ride, Tomás Rivera, Pattiann Rogers, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Shu, Ting, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Stafford, Wisława Szymborska, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Mark Twain, U2, Patricia Volk, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Walt Whitman, Bryan Wooley, William Wordsworth, Richard Wright

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition cover

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition

2000

Andrew W. Conrad, Joseph Addison, Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden, Bede, James Berry, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Marie Borroff, James Boswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Brooke, Rupert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Margaret Drabble, John Dryden, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, William Hazlitt, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Ted Hughes, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Kennedy, Charles W., Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Richard Lovelace, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Malory, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, George Meredith, John Milton, V. S. Naipaul, George Orwell, Wilfred Owen - undifferentiated, Samuel Pepys, Alexander Pope, Burton Raffel, Walter Raleigh, Henry Reed, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Stilltoe, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Sir Richard Steele, Suckling, John Sir, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Trevor, Derek Walcott, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II cover

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II

2007

Kate Kinsella, Robert Burns, Joanna Baillie, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Heinrich Heine, Basho, Yosa Bunson, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Лев Толстой, Matthew Arnold, Rudyard Kipling, James Berry, Sidney Smith, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, A. E. Houseman, E. E. Cummings, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Brooke, Rupert, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Saki, Winston S. Churchill, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Doris Lessing, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Muriel Spark, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Jorge Luis Borges, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Redgrove, Peter., Stevie Smith, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Anita Desai, Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Wolfe

Work cover

Work

2010

Donald Ray Pollock, Steven Hall, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann, Kent Haruf, Julian Barnes, Patrick Waterhouse, Brad Watson, Yiyun Li, Aminatta Forna, Jim Crace, Jim Crace, Martin Kimani, Ruchir Joshi, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Joshua Ferris, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo