The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

作者: Walcott, Derek,Maxwell, Glyn

出版社: Macmillan

出版时间: 2014-01

ISBN: 9780374125615

定价: 684.33

装帧: 其他

页数: 617页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott?s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
  ?He gives us more than himself or ?a world?; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.? Alongside Joseph Brodsky?s words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen?s Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948?2013 draws from every stage of the poet?s storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like ?In My Eighteenth Year,? published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like ?A Far Cry from Africa,? which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one?s very blood; his mature work, like ?The Schooner Flight? fromThe Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces, like the tender ?Sixty Years After,? from the 2010 collectionWhite Egrets.
  Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one?s own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott?s friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.
  ,A collection spanning the range of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's career includes his first published poem, "In My Eighteenth Year"; his first widely celebrated verses on the violence in Africa; his mature work from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces from White Egrets. 10,000 first printing.,A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom," and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets.",
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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott?s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
  ?He gives us more than himself or ?a world?; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.? Alongside Joseph Brodsky?s words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen?s Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948?2013 draws from every stage of the poet?s storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like ?In My Eighteenth Year,? published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like ?A Far Cry from Africa,? which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one?s very blood; his mature work, like ?The Schooner Flight? fromThe Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces, like the tender ?Sixty Years After,? from the 2010 collectionWhite Egrets.
  Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one?s own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott?s friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.
  ,A collection spanning the range of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's career includes his first published poem, "In My Eighteenth Year"; his first widely celebrated verses on the violence in Africa; his mature work from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces from White Egrets. 10,000 first printing.,A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom," and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets.",

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