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: LITS 2004 (E20D) or LITS 2503 (E25C) or LITS 2706 (E27F)

Instruction: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: 2 coursework essays/textual analyses 40%
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Walcott, Derek. Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux pb)

Highly Recommended:

Breslin, Paul. Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott ( Univ. of Chicago Press pb)
Ismond, Patricia. Abandoning Dead Metaphors (UWI Press pb)
Thieme, John. Derek Walcott ( Univ. of Manchester Press pb)