Derek Walcott: Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography          

E. Baugh, Derek Walcott. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006

E. Baugh, Derek Walcott. Memory as Vision: Another Life. London: Macmillan, 1978.

P. Burnett, Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

G. Davis, ed., South Atlantic Quarterly 96/2, Special Issue. The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives, 1997.

G. Davis, ‘’ Homecomings without Home”: Representations of (post) colonial Nostos (Homecoming) in the Lyric of Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott’, in B. Graziosi and E. Greenwood, eds.,  2007: 191-209

G. Davis, ‘Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romaire Bearden’, in L. Hardwick and C. Stray, eds, A Companion to Classical Receptions. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 401-444.

E. Greenwood, ‘Arriving Backwards: the Return of the Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean’, in L. Hardwick and C. Gillespie, eds., Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 192 -210.

E. Greenwood, ‘Shades of Rome in the Poetry of Derek Walcott’, in S. Harrison, ed., Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2009, 255-274.

R. D. Hamner, Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Washington DC:Three Constituents Press, 1993.

L. Hardwick, ‘Reception as Simile: the Poetics of Reversal in Homer and Derek Walcott’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 3/3, 1997, 326-338.

L.  Hardwick, ‘Classical texts in post-colonial literatures: Consolation, redress and new beginnings in the work of Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney.’ International Journal of the Classical Tradition 9 (2002), p.236-256.

B. King, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

I. Okpewho, ‘Walcott, Homer, and the ‘Black Atlantic’.’ Research in African Literatures 33 (2002), p.27-44.

R.Terada, Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

J. Thieme, Derek Walcott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

J. Thieme, ‘I decompose but I composing still': Derek Walcott and 'The Spoiler's Return’. The Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995), pp.163-172.

General Critical Works:

 B. Goff, ed., Classics and Colonialism. London: Duckworth, 2005.

B. Graziosi and E. Greenwood, eds., Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

E. Greenwood, ‘We Speak Latin in Trinidad’: Uses of Classics in Caribbean Literature’, in Goff, ed., 2005, 65-91.

E. Greenwood, Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

L. Hardwick, Translating Words, Translating Cultures, London: Duckworth, 2000.