Abandoning Dead Metaphors
Subtitle: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789766401078
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Walcott, Derek - Poems & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; American English; English; West Indies; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
First sentence: This book deals with the Caribbean phase of Walcott's poetry, as represented by the volumes produced from 1948 to 1979, an output extending from the juvenilia (25 Poems [1948], Poems [1951], and Epitaph for the Young [1949]) to The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979).