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Tiepolo's Hound [Paperback]

Derek Walcott
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (3 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571209122
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571209125
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 230,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'This is a rich, hugely ambitious work, the mighty poem of a major poet in the full flight of his authority and curiosity, a Victorian-scale construction which thrilled me and which I will read again and again.' Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph; 'Tiepolo's Hound is a long, complex but coherent, almost Wordsworthian account of the growth of the poet's mind, which is interwoven with a biographical study, or poetic re-creation of the life and art of Camille Pissarro... beautifully written.' Vernon Scannell, Sunday Telegraph; 'Walcott explores the connections between the landscapes of childhood and those of art, he enters the mind of exile, unteases the presumptions of Empire...' Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times

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A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover the detail of a painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Published with 25 full-colour reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Eat your heart out, Oxford University, 9 July 2009
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To think Oxford University could have had the writer of this marvellous, challenging book as its Professor of Poetry! A master craftsman weaving in and out of his richly multicultural world . Intriguing and full of surprises . Read and then read again.
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