The Homer of the Caribbean
Summary
Poet, playwright and painter Derek Walcott (Santa Lucia, 1930-2017) is one of the best known and most praised figures of Caribbean poetry. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, one year after the publication of one of his masterpieces, the epic poem Omeros. Walcott’s poetry unites Caribbean and western traditions in a link in which the ocean takes on particular strength; it is a poetic image that is recurrent and significant throughout his poetry. In this anthology, comprised of poems from the author’s youth, ocean imagery also predominates.
