Derek Walcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 325472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Walcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Walcott |
| SIGNATURE | WALCOTT D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Interview with Derek Walcott
The Yellow Cemetery
On Empire
On Empire Derek Walcott (bio) I And then there was no more Empire all of a sudden. Its victories were air, its dominions dirt. Burma, Canada, Egypt, Africa, India, The Sudan The map that had seeped its stain on a schoolboy’s shirt like red ink on a blotter, the battles, the long sieges. dhows and feluccas, hill stations, outposts, flags fluttering down in the dusk, their golden aegis went out with the sun, the last gleam on a great crag, with tig…
A Poem
Conversations with Derek Walcott
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
The Antilles, Fragments of Epic Memory: The 1992 Nobel Lecture
This is the address given by Derek Walcott in Stockholm on 10th December 1992, at the ceremony marking his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Testimony From Here and Elsewhere
Poems
The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry
We live in the shadow of an America that is economically benign yet politically malevolent. That malevolence, because of its size, threatens an eclipse of identity, but the shadow is as inescapable as that of any previous empire. But we were American even while we were British, if only in the geographical sense, and now that the shadow of the British Empire has passed through and over us in the Caribbean, we ask ourselves if, in the spiritual or …
Gib Hall Revisited
The Dream On Monkey Mountain
Santa Lucia
Words for Rent
Poems
Two Poems
The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry
We live in the shadow of an America that is economically benign yet politically malevolent. That malevolence, because of its size, threatens an eclipse of identity, but the shadow is as inescapable as that of any previous empire. But we were American even while we were British, if only in the geographical sense, and now that the shadow of the British Empire has passed through and over us in the Caribbean, we ask ourselves if, in the spiritual or …
The Antilles, Fragments of Epic Memory: The 1992 Nobel Lecture
This is the address given by Derek Walcott in Stockholm on 10th December 1992, at the ceremony marking his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Two Poems
Words for Rent
Poems
Santa Lucia
The Dream On Monkey Mountain
Gib Hall Revisited
The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry
We live in the shadow of an America that is economically benign yet politically malevolent. That malevolence, because of its size, threatens an eclipse of identity, but the shadow is as inescapable as that of any previous empire. But we were American even while we were British, if only in the geographical sense, and now that the shadow of the British Empire has passed through and over us in the Caribbean, we ask ourselves if, in the spiritual or …
Poems
Testimony From Here and Elsewhere
The Antilles, Fragments of Epic Memory: The 1992 Nobel Lecture
This is the address given by Derek Walcott in Stockholm on 10th December 1992, at the ceremony marking his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Conversations with Derek Walcott
A Poem
The Yellow Cemetery
On Empire
On Empire Derek Walcott (bio) I And then there was no more Empire all of a sudden. Its victories were air, its dominions dirt. Burma, Canada, Egypt, Africa, India, The Sudan The map that had seeped its stain on a schoolboy’s shirt like red ink on a blotter, the battles, the long sieges. dhows and feluccas, hill stations, outposts, flags fluttering down in the dusk, their golden aegis went out with the sun, the last gleam on a great crag, with tig…
An Interview with Derek Walcott
History (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)