Lecturer in charge: Professor Edward Baugh [Room 59 – New Arts Block]

A comprehensive examination of Walcott's poetic achievement with close study of selected works. Attention will be paid to form and style as well as content.

Prerequisite: At least one Level 2 poetry course

Instruction: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
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Evaluation: 2 coursework essays/textual analyses 40%

Final 2-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Walcott, Derek. Collected Poems (Faber & Faber hc)

Highly Recommended:

Breslin, Paul. Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott ( Univ. of Chicago Press pb)
Hamner, Robert, ed. Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott (Lynne Rienner pb)
Ismond, Patricia. Abandoning Dead Metaphors (UWI Press pb)
Thieme, John. Derek Walcott ( Univ. of Manchester Press pb)
Baugh, Edward. Derek Walcott ( Univ. of Cambridge Press hc)