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Collected Poems, 1948-84 (Paperback)

by Derek Walcott (Author)
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  • Paperback: 516 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc; New edition edition (Dec 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0374520259
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374520250
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
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  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 981,089 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"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 . . . This is a triumphant book."--Seamus Heaney, "The Boston Globe""It is difficult to think of a poet in our century who--without ever betraying his native sources--has so organically assimilated the evolution of English literature from the Renaissance to the present, who has absorbed the Classical and Judeo-Christian past, and who has mined the history of Western painting as Walcott has. Throughout his entire body of work he has managed to hold in balance his passionate moral concerns with the ideal of art. 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."--Peter Balakian, "Poetry"

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