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Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980)

Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)

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The Bounty (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)

Tiepolo's Hound (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000)

The Prodigal (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004; London: Faber and Faber, 2005)

The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992)

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‘Derek Walcott: The Poet in the Theatre’, Poetry Review, 80:4 (Winter 1990/1), 4–8

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‘His Is the Pivotal One about Race’ [Denis Williams’ Other Leopards], Sunday Guardian, 1 December 1963, p. 23

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Franklin: A Tale of the Islands, unpublished mimeograph (c. 1968); revised version, c. 1968, the Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970; London: Jonathan Cape, 1972)

The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!: Two Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978; London: Jonathan Cape, 1979)

Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980)

Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)

The Odyssey: A Stage Version (London: Faber and Faber, 1993; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993)

The Haitian Trilogy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

Walker and The Ghost Dance (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

25 Poems (Port of Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948; 2nd edn, Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Co., 1949)

Epitaph for the Young:xiiCantos (Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Co., 1949)

Poems (Kingston [Jamaica]: City Printery Ltd, c.1951)

In A Green Night (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962)

Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964)

The Castaway and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965)

The Gulf and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969)

The Gulf (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970)

Another Life (London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973; fully annotated edn, eds. Edward Baugh and Colbert Nepaulsingh, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2004)

Sea Grapes (London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976)

The Star-Apple Kingdom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979; London: Cape, 1980)

The Fortunate Traveller (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981; London: Faber and Faber, 1982)

Selected Poetry, ed. Wayne Brown (London, Kingston, Jamaica and Port of Spain, Trinidad: Heinemann, 1981; reptd 1993)

Midsummer (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984)

Collected Poems 1948–1984 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986: London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992)

The Arkansas Testament (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987; London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988)

Omeros (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)

The Bounty (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)

Tiepolo's Hound (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000)

The Prodigal (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004; London: Faber and Faber, 2005)

The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992)

Conversations with Derek Walcott, ed. William Baer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996)

What the Twilight Says: Essays (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

‘Caligula's Horse’, Kunapipi, 11:1 (1989), 138–42

‘The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry?’ in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997), pp. 51–7

‘A Colonial's-Eye View of the Empire’, Tri-Quarterly, 65 (Winter 1986), 73–7

‘A Dilemma Faces W[est] I[ndian] Artists’, Sunday Guardian, 12 January 1964, p. 3

‘A Great Russian Novel’ [Nabokov's The Gift], Sunday Guardian, 19 April 1964, p. 15

‘Derek's “Most West Indian Play”’ [Ti-Jean and His Brothers], Sunday Guardian Magazine, 21 June 1970, p. 7

‘Derek Walcott: The Poet in the Theatre’, Poetry Review, 80:4 (Winter 1990/1), 4–8

‘The Elegist’ [Adam Zagajewski's Without End: New and Selected Poems], The New Republic, 20 May 2002, pp. 31–35

‘The Figure of Crusoe’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘His Is the Pivotal One about Race’ [Denis Williams’ Other Leopards], Sunday Guardian, 1 December 1963, p. 23

‘Leaving School – viii’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘Meanings’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘Native Women Under Sea-Almond Trees: Musings on Art, Life, and the Island of St Lucia’, House and Garden, 156:8 (1985), 115, 161–3

‘Necessity of Negritude’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘On Choosing Port of Spain’, in David Frost Introduces Trinidad and Tobago, eds. Michael Anthony and Andrew Carr (London: André Deutsch, 1975), pp. 14–23

‘Reflections on Omeros’, in South Atlantic Quarterly, 96:2 (Spring 1997), 229–46

‘The Road Taken’, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Homage to Robert Frost (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996)

‘The White Devil: A Story of Christmas’, Sunday Guardian Magazine, 25 December 1966, p. 20

Burnett, Paula, ‘“Walcott, Man of the Theatre:” An Interview with Derek Walcott’, The Caribbean Writer, 14 (2000), 113–19

Burnett, Paula. ‘Derek Walcott on Poetry, Pity and Power: An Interview’, Agenda, 39:1–3 (Winter 2002–3), 139–63

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Walcott, Derek, ‘Derek Walcott, A Self-Interview’, Sunday Guardian, 16 October 1966, p. 7

Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes (Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Co., 1950)

The Sea at Dauphin: A Play in One Act (Port of Spain, Trinidad: University College of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department, 1954)

The Wine of the Country, unpublished mimeograph (c.1956), the Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Ione: A Play with Music (Kingston, Jamaica: University College of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department, 1957)

Ti-Jean: A Play in One Act, mimeograph (Kingston, Jamaica: University College of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department, c.1957)

Malcauchon or, Six in the Rain: A Play in 1 Act (Kingston, Jamaica: University College of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department, n.d., mimeograph; Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department, 1966)

Franklin: A Tale of the Islands, unpublished mimeograph (c. 1968); revised version, c. 1968, the Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970; London: Jonathan Cape, 1972)

The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!: Two Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978; London: Jonathan Cape, 1979)

Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980)

Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)

The Odyssey: A Stage Version (London: Faber and Faber, 1993; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993)

The Haitian Trilogy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

Walker and The Ghost Dance (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

25 Poems (Port of Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948; 2nd edn, Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Co., 1949)

Epitaph for the Young:xiiCantos (Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Co., 1949)

Poems (Kingston [Jamaica]: City Printery Ltd, c.1951)

In A Green Night (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962)

Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964)

The Castaway and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965)

The Gulf and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969)

The Gulf (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970)

Another Life (London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973; fully annotated edn, eds. Edward Baugh and Colbert Nepaulsingh, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2004)

Sea Grapes (London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976)

The Star-Apple Kingdom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979; London: Cape, 1980)

The Fortunate Traveller (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981; London: Faber and Faber, 1982)

Selected Poetry, ed. Wayne Brown (London, Kingston, Jamaica and Port of Spain, Trinidad: Heinemann, 1981; reptd 1993)

Midsummer (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984)

Collected Poems 1948–1984 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986: London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992)

The Arkansas Testament (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987; London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988)

Omeros (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)

The Bounty (London and Boston: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)

Tiepolo's Hound (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000)

The Prodigal (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004; London: Faber and Faber, 2005)

The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992)

Conversations with Derek Walcott, ed. William Baer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996)

What the Twilight Says: Essays (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

‘Caligula's Horse’, Kunapipi, 11:1 (1989), 138–42

‘The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry?’ in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997), pp. 51–7

‘A Colonial's-Eye View of the Empire’, Tri-Quarterly, 65 (Winter 1986), 73–7

‘A Dilemma Faces W[est] I[ndian] Artists’, Sunday Guardian, 12 January 1964, p. 3

‘A Great Russian Novel’ [Nabokov's The Gift], Sunday Guardian, 19 April 1964, p. 15

‘Derek's “Most West Indian Play”’ [Ti-Jean and His Brothers], Sunday Guardian Magazine, 21 June 1970, p. 7

‘Derek Walcott: The Poet in the Theatre’, Poetry Review, 80:4 (Winter 1990/1), 4–8

‘The Elegist’ [Adam Zagajewski's Without End: New and Selected Poems], The New Republic, 20 May 2002, pp. 31–35

‘The Figure of Crusoe’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘His Is the Pivotal One about Race’ [Denis Williams’ Other Leopards], Sunday Guardian, 1 December 1963, p. 23

‘Leaving School – viii’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘Meanings’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘Native Women Under Sea-Almond Trees: Musings on Art, Life, and the Island of St Lucia’, House and Garden, 156:8 (1985), 115, 161–3

‘Necessity of Negritude’, in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, ed. Robert D. Hamner

‘On Choosing Port of Spain’, in David Frost Introduces Trinidad and Tobago, eds. Michael Anthony and Andrew Carr (London: André Deutsch, 1975), pp. 14–23

‘Reflections on Omeros’, in South Atlantic Quarterly, 96:2 (Spring 1997), 229–46

‘The Road Taken’, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Homage to Robert Frost (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996)

‘The White Devil: A Story of Christmas’, Sunday Guardian Magazine, 25 December 1966, p. 20

Burnett, Paula, ‘“Walcott, Man of the Theatre:” An Interview with Derek Walcott’, The Caribbean Writer, 14 (2000), 113–19

Burnett, Paula. ‘Derek Walcott on Poetry, Pity and Power: An Interview’, Agenda, 39:1–3 (Winter 2002–3), 139–63

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Jacobs, Carl, ‘There's No Bitterness In Our Literature’, Sunday Guardian, 22 May 1966, p. 9

Jaggi, Maya, ‘No Trouble in Paradise’, The Guardian, 12 July 1997, ‘The Week’, p. 3

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Callaloo, 28:1 (Winter 2005)

Fumagalli, , Cristina, Maria, The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001)Google Scholar

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King, , Bruce, , Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)Google Scholar

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Pollard, Charles W., New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott and Kaman Brathwaite (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004)Google Scholar

South Atlantic Quarterly, 96:2 (Spring 1997)

Terada, , Rei, , Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992)Google Scholar

Thieme, , John, , Derek Walcott (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999)Google Scholar

Verse, 11:2 (Summer 1994), ‘Derek Walcott Feature’, 93–170

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Brown, Wayne, ‘Derek Walcott: His Poetry and His People’ [The Arkansas Testament], Caribbean Affairs, 1:3 (July-September 1988), 174–93

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Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Walcott and Sexual Politics: Macho Conventions Shape the Moon’, The Literary Half-Yearly, 26:1 (January 1985), 43–60Google Scholar

Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Value Judgements on Art and the Question of Macho Attitudes: The Case of Derek Walcott’, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 21:1 (1986), 109–19CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Hannan, , Jim, , ‘Crossing Couplets: Making Form the Matter of Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound’, New Literary History, 33:3 (Summer 2002), 559–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Ismond, Patricia, ‘Walcott's Later Drama: from “Joker” to “Remembrance”’, Ariel, 16:3 (July 1985), 89–101

Ismond, Patricia, ‘Woman as Race-Containing Symbol in Walcott's Poetry’, Journal of West Indian Literature, 8:2 (April 1999), 83–89

James, Louis, ‘From Crusoe to Omeros: Derek Walcott’, in Caribbean Literature in English (London and New York: Longman, 1999), pp.179–84

Kessler, Joyce, ‘All the Horned Island's Birds: The Transformative African Symbols of Walcott's Omeros’, The Arkansas Review, 5:1–2 (August 1996), 1–9

King-Pedroso, Natalie, ‘“I-Tie-All My People-Together”: New World Appropriations of the Yoruba Deity Oshun in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Derek Walcott's Omeros’, Journal of Caribbean Studies, 15:1 and 2 (Fall 2000), 61–94

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Leithauser, Brad, ‘Ancestral Rhyme’ [Omeros], The New Yorker, 61:52 (11 February 1991), pp. 91–5

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Lernout, Geert, ‘Derek Walcott's Omeros: The Isle is Full of Voices’, Kunapipi, 14:2 (1992), 90–104

MacDonald, D. L., ‘Derek Walcott's Don Juans’, Connotations, 4:1–2 (1994/5), 98–118

Morris, Mervyn, ‘Derek Walcott’, in West Indian Literature, 2nd edn, ed. Bruce King (London and Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1995), pp.176–93

Morris, Mervyn, ‘The Wandering Eye’ [The Prodigal], The Washington Post Book World, 21 November 2004, p. 12

Okpewho, Isidore, ‘Walcott, Homer, and the “Black Atlantic”’, Research in African Literatures, 33:1 (Spring 2002), 27–44

Olaniyan, Tejumola, ‘Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse’, in Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American and Caribbean Drama (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 93–115

Questel, Victor, ‘Walcott's Major Triumph’ [Another Life], Tapia, 23 December 1973, pp. 6–7; 30 December 1973, pp. 6–7

Thieme, John, ‘“I decompose but I composing still”: Derek Walcott and “The Spoiler's Return”’, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 (1995), 162–72

Agenda, 39: 1–3 (Winter 2002–3)

Baugh, , Edward, , Derek Walcott: Memory As Vision: ‘Another Life’ (London: Longman, 1978)Google Scholar

Bloom, , Harold, , ed. Derek Walcott (Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2003)Google Scholar

Bobb, , June, D., Beating A Restless Drum: The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998)Google Scholar

Breslin, , Paul, , Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Brown, , Stewart, , ed. The Art of Derek Walcott (Bridgend, Glamorgan: Seren Books, 1991)Google Scholar

Burnett, , Paula, , Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000)Google Scholar

Callahan, , Russell, Lance, In The Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott's ‘Omeros’ (Fredericton: University of New Brunswick Press, 1999)Google Scholar

Callaloo, 28:1 (Winter 2005)

Fumagalli, , Cristina, Maria, The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001)Google Scholar

Goldstraw, , Irma, E., Derek Walcott: An Annotated Bibliography of His Works (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1984)Google Scholar

Hamner, , Robert, D., Derek Walcott, updated edn (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993)Google Scholar

Hamner, , Robert, D.,Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's ‘Omeros’ (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1997)Google Scholar

Hamner, , Robert, D., ed. Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997)Google Scholar

Ismond, , Patricia, , Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press, 2001)Google Scholar

King, , Bruce, , Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)Google Scholar

King, Bruce, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (Oxford and NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Pollard, Charles W., New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott and Kaman Brathwaite (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004)Google Scholar

South Atlantic Quarterly, 96:2 (Spring 1997)

Terada, , Rei, , Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992)Google Scholar

Thieme, , John, , Derek Walcott (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999)Google Scholar

Verse, 11:2 (Summer 1994), ‘Derek Walcott Feature’, 93–170

Antoine-Dunne, Jean, ‘Time and Space in their Indissoluble Connection: Towards an Audio-Visual Caribbean Aesthetic’, in The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Cultural and Critical Contexts (Critical Studies 21), eds. Jean Antoine-Dunne with Paula Quigley (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005), pp. 125–52

Baugh, Edward, ‘The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History’, Tapia, 20 February 1977, pp. 6–7; 27 February 1977, pp. 6–7, 11

Brathwaite, Edward [Kamau], ‘Edward Brathwaite Looks at Walcott's “In A Green Night”’, The Voice of St Lucia, 13 April 1963, p.4

Breiner, , Laurence, A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Brown, , Lloyd, W., ‘The Personal Odyssey of Derek Walcott’, West Indian Poetry (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978), pp. 118–38Google Scholar

Brown, Wayne, ‘Derek Walcott: His Poetry and His People’ [The Arkansas Testament], Caribbean Affairs, 1:3 (July-September 1988), 174–93

Chamberlin, , Edward, J., Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993), esp. pp. 121–6 and 155–75Google Scholar

Donoghue, Denis, ‘Themes from Derek Walcott’ [Sea Grapes], Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 6:1 (Fall/Winter, 1977), 88–100

Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Walcott and Sexual Politics: Macho Conventions Shape the Moon’, The Literary Half-Yearly, 26:1 (January 1985), 43–60Google Scholar

Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Value Judgements on Art and the Question of Macho Attitudes: The Case of Derek Walcott’, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 21:1 (1986), 109–19CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Figueroa, John J., ‘Creole in Literature: Beyond Verisimilitude: Texture and Varieties: Derek Walcott’, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 (1995), 156–62

Hannan, , Jim, , ‘Crossing Couplets: Making Form the Matter of Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound’, New Literary History, 33:3 (Summer 2002), 559–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Ismond, Patricia, ‘Walcott's Later Drama: from “Joker” to “Remembrance”’, Ariel, 16:3 (July 1985), 89–101

Ismond, Patricia, ‘Woman as Race-Containing Symbol in Walcott's Poetry’, Journal of West Indian Literature, 8:2 (April 1999), 83–89

James, Louis, ‘From Crusoe to Omeros: Derek Walcott’, in Caribbean Literature in English (London and New York: Longman, 1999), pp.179–84

Kessler, Joyce, ‘All the Horned Island's Birds: The Transformative African Symbols of Walcott's Omeros’, The Arkansas Review, 5:1–2 (August 1996), 1–9

King-Pedroso, Natalie, ‘“I-Tie-All My People-Together”: New World Appropriations of the Yoruba Deity Oshun in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Derek Walcott's Omeros’, Journal of Caribbean Studies, 15:1 and 2 (Fall 2000), 61–94

Kirsch, , Adam, ‘Unphantasmal Peace’ [The Bounty], The New Republic, 15 December 1997, pp. 42–5Google Scholar

Leithauser, Brad, ‘Ancestral Rhyme’ [Omeros], The New Yorker, 61:52 (11 February 1991), pp. 91–5

Lennard, John, The Poetry Handbook, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Lernout, Geert, ‘Derek Walcott's Omeros: The Isle is Full of Voices’, Kunapipi, 14:2 (1992), 90–104

MacDonald, D. L., ‘Derek Walcott's Don Juans’, Connotations, 4:1–2 (1994/5), 98–118

Morris, Mervyn, ‘Derek Walcott’, in West Indian Literature, 2nd edn, ed. Bruce King (London and Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1995), pp.176–93

Morris, Mervyn, ‘The Wandering Eye’ [The Prodigal], The Washington Post Book World, 21 November 2004, p. 12

Okpewho, Isidore, ‘Walcott, Homer, and the “Black Atlantic”’, Research in African Literatures, 33:1 (Spring 2002), 27–44

Olaniyan, Tejumola, ‘Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse’, in Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American and Caribbean Drama (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 93–115

Questel, Victor, ‘Walcott's Major Triumph’ [Another Life], Tapia, 23 December 1973, pp. 6–7; 30 December 1973, pp. 6–7

Thieme, John, ‘“I decompose but I composing still”: Derek Walcott and “The Spoiler's Return”’, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 (1995), 162–72