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| Derek Walcott |
| 德里克•沃爾柯特 |
| 圖片來源：http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/walcott.html |
| 主要文類：Poem |
| 資料提供者：Pin-chia Feng (馮品佳) |
| 關鍵字詞：World Literature in English |
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 Biographic Sketch
Major Themes
List of Works
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Biographic
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- 1930 1/23born
in Castries, St. Lucia
- 1950 founded
the St. Lucia Arts Guild
- 1953 BA from
UWI--Mona
- 1959-71 founded
the Little Carib Theatre (later the Trinidad Theatre Workshop)
- 1981 MacArthur
Foundation "Genius" Award
- 1992 Nobel
Laureate
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| Major
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- binary oppositions: white and back,
colonizer and colonizer, British and West Indian synthesis--working
toward a resolution of his hybrid identity
- Odyssey: voyaging, travel through cultures
and space; Omeros (Homerus/Homer, Joyce,
Dante--terza rima in The Divine Comedy)--Walcott's
intention is to bring forth "the Homeric quality of Caribbean life"
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List
of Works
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- POETRY:
- Twenty-Five
Poems, 1948
- Epitaph
for the Young: A Poem in XII Cantos, 1949
- Poems,
1953
- In a
Green Night: Poems, 1948-1960
- Selected
Poems, 1964
- The
Castaway and Other Poems, 1965
- The
Gulf and Other Poems, 1969
- Another
Life, 1973
- Sea
Grapes, 1976
- Selected
Verse, 1976
- The
Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979
- The
Fortunate Traveler, 1981
- Selected
Poetry, 1981
- The
Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott, and the Art of Romare Beardon, 1983
- Midsummer,
1984
- Collected
Poems, 1948-1984
- The
Arkansas Testament, 1987
- Omeros,
1989
- The
Bounty, 1997
- Contributor
of poems to many periodicals, including New Statesman, London Magazine,
Encounter, and Bim.
- PLAYS:
- Henri
Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes, 1950
- Harry
Dernier: A Play for Radio Production, 1951
- Wine
of the Country, 1953
- The
Sea at Dauphin: A Play in One Act, 1954
- Ione:
A Play with Music, 1957
- Drums
and Colours: An Epic Drama, 1958
- Ti-Jean
and His Brothers, 1958
- Malcochon:
or, Six in the Rain, 1966
- Dream
on Monkey Mountain, 1967
- Dream
on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, 1970
- In a
Fine Castle, 1970
- The
Joker of Seville, 1974
- The
Charlatan, 1974
- O
Babylon!, 1976
- Remembrance,
1977
- Pantomime,
1978
- The
Joker of Seville and O Babylon!: Two Plays, 1980
- Remembrance
and Pantomime: Two Plays, 1980
- The
Isle Is Full of Noises, 1982
- Three
Plays (The Last Carnival, Beef, No Chicken, and A Branch of the Blue
Nile), 1986
- Steel,
1991
- Odyssey:
A Stage Version, 1993
- The
Capeman: A Musical, 1998 (with Paul Simon)
- OTHER WORKS:
- Franklin
- A
Tale of the Islands
- Jourmand
- To
Die for Grenada
- The
Poet in the Theatre, 1990
- Antilles:
Fragments of Epic Memory, 1993
- What
the Twilight Says: Essays, 1998
- CONTRIBUTIONS:
- Caribbean
Voices, 1966
- From
the Green Antilles, 1966
- Commonwealth
Poems of Today, 1967
- Caribbean
Verse, 1968
- The
Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers, 1968
- Is
Massa Day Dead?, 1974
- Oxford
Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980, 1980
- Plays
for Today, 1985
***list
taken from http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/caribbean/walcott/works.html
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