What the twilight says : essays / Derek Walcott.

"What the Twilight Says collects Derek Walcott's essays from over twenty years. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture (including his noted Nobel Lecture), and his reckonings of the work and significance of such poets as Robert L...

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Main Author: Walcott, Derek
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
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505 0 |a What the twilight says -- The muse of history -- The Antilles: fragments of epic memory -- On Robert Lowell -- On Hemingway -- C.L.R. James -- The garden path: V.S. Naipaul -- Magic industry: Joseph Brodsky -- The master of the ordinary: Philip Larkin -- Ted Hughes -- Crocodile dandy: Les Murray -- The road taken: Robert Frost -- A letter to Chamoiseau -- Café Martinique: a story. 
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