Omeros

Informationen zum Autor Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, including Omeros (1990) and White Egrets (2010), he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He died in 2017. Klappentext Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.Walcott's masterpiece, and an epic to rival Homer. Zusammenfassung Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Walcott Estate, Derek Walcott, Walcott Derek
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2002
• EAN: 9780571144594
• ISBN: 978-0-571-14459-4
• No. of pages: 325
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets