Collected Poems 1948-1984

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About COLLECTED POEMS
Derek Walcott's virtues as a poet are extraordinary . . . He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts.
—J AMES DICKEY, The New York Times Book Review
By his fifty-fifth year Derek Walcott has made his culture, history, and sociology into a myth for our age and into an epic song that has already taken its place in the history of Western literature.
-P ETER BALAKIAN, Poetry
One of the most instructive experiences afforded by this collected edition is the spectacle of a poet moving with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it . The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by a fine excess. It can be incantatory and self-entrancing, as in the early "Sea-Chantey"... Tovább

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About COLLECTED POEMS
Derek Walcott's virtues as a poet are extraordinary . . . He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts.
—J AMES DICKEY, The New York Times Book Review
By his fifty-fifth year Derek Walcott has made his culture, history, and sociology into a myth for our age and into an epic song that has already taken its place in the history of Western literature.
-P ETER BALAKIAN, Poetry
One of the most instructive experiences afforded by this collected edition is the spectacle of a poet moving with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it . The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by a fine excess. It can be incantatory and self-entrancing, as in the early "Sea-Chantey" and the later "Season of Phantasmal Peace." It can be athletic and demotic as in "Tales of the Islands" or "The Spoiler's Return." It can compel us with the almost hydraulic drag of its words . . . This is a triumphant book.
—sEAMUs HEANEY, The Boston Globe
This book includes most of the poems in each of Derek Walcott's seven collections, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life—a narrative poem of over four thousand lines that J. D. McClatchy, writing in The New Republic, praised as "one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the lavish layering of details, and the mythic resonance of a certain classic." Collected Poems received the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry.
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