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- catalog abstract ""This is the first literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-Creole Roman Catholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate. The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the need to justify his life and fulfil his talents before an unknowable God, but who, in mastering the ways of the world, often regards himself as an example of fallen humanity. Besides offering an approach to Walcott as a poet, dramatist, theatre director, arts critic, and teacher, the book shows how his desire to be a painter influenced his vision and the way he works."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11661121.
- catalog coverage "Caribbean Area Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This is the first literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-Creole Roman Catholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate. The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the need to justify his life and fulfil his talents before an unknowable God, but who, in mastering the ways of the world, often regards himself as an example of fallen humanity. Besides offering an approach to Walcott as a poet, dramatist, theatre director, arts critic, and teacher, the book shows how his desire to be a painter influenced his vision and the way he works."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-688) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 714 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "019871131X".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "811 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Saint Lucian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR9272.9.W3 Z72 2000".
- catalog subject "Poets, Saint Lucian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Saint Lucians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Walcott, Derek.".
- catalog title "Derek Walcott : a Caribbean life / Bruce King.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".