Derek Walcott | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Derek Walcott.

Derek Walcott | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Derek Walcott.
This section contains 3,057 words
(approx. 11 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Review by Adam Kirsch

SOURCE: Kirsch, Adam. “Singing the Griot's Song.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5085 (15 September 2000): 10–11.

In the following review, Kirsch provides an overview of Walcott's life and writing through a discussion of Bruce King's biography, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life, and offers a positive assessment of Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound.

Every poet begins as a provincial, dreaming of emigration to the city of the honoured dead. “I think I shall be among the English poets after my death,” wrote Keats, and the ambiguity is moving; he wants to be remembered as one of them, but also actually to walk and talk with them, like Dante with Virgil. To live on the fringes of literary society may, then, be an advantage to a poet's literary culture. He sees no reason not to converse directly with the authors he knows only from books, he does not need his passport stamped by London or New...

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