Gulf and Other Poems e-bog
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As his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, The Gulf was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London Times wrote, "e;His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writ...
E-bog
81,03 DKK
Forlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Udgivet
9 september 2014
Længde
300 sider
Genrer
Poetry by individual poets
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781466880351
As his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, The Gulf was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London Times wrote, "e;His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writes with a tropical glory of images; handles his huge pyrotechnic vocabulary with iron-discipline , verve and nerve...His glittering intelligence and luxurious command of sensation fuse in a mastery of images which burst in the brain like balls of phosphorescent fire."e;The subject of the title poem is the alienation and isolation of an Americawhere filling-station signsproclaim the Gulf, an air, heavy with gassickens the state, from Newark to New Orleans.The central figure in the Caribbean poems is a Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, who "e;learns again the self-creating peace of islands."e;