A selective bibliography of open access articles on Derek Walcott, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Fulford, Sarah. An introduction to Derek Walcott, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 08 January 2001. On Omeros (1990)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1992. The Derek Walcott page contains a brief biography and his 1992 Nobel prize acceptance lecture
A biographical introduction to Derek Walcott from the Books and Writers web site
An overview of Derek Walcott from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web. It includes critical articles about his novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts
Derek Walcott, a biography from Contemporary Writers, from the British Council
A NYTimes review of The Bounty by William Logan, June 29, 1997. Also links to other Times reviews of The Fortunate Traveler, Midsummer, Collected Poems 1948-1984, The Arkansas Testament, and Omeros. (Requires one-time registration)
"A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Postcolonial Philology." "The study of Derek Walcott is divided terrain, not unlike the confrontations of Classics and Caribbean life staged in his poetry." Conference paper abstract, by Cashman Kerr Prince, McMaster University
An introduction to the West Indian poet Derek Walcott, from the postcolonial literature project at Emory Univ.
An overview of Derek Walcott from the World Literatures in English Web Site, Fu Jen University, Taiwan
An newspaper article on Derek Walcott's poetry from the Boston Globe, Oct. 9, 1992
A review of Tiepolo's Hound (2001) by Amanda Jeremin Harris, in The Richmond Review (UK), n.d
A newspaper article about Derek Walcott's winning the Nobel prize, from the Boston Globe April 25, 1993
An introduction to the poet Derek Walcott from the Academy of American Poets
"Unphantasmal Peace." A review of The Bounty, reviewed by Adam Kirsch in The New Republic, Dec. 15, 1997 (removed)
"Epic of the Dispossessed," a review of Derek Walcott's Omeros, by Professor Robert D. Hamner, Univ. of Missouri Press, 1997 (removed from http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/fall1997/hamner.htm)
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