English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1709 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Derek Walcott
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The idea
Derek Walcott, a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who died in two thousand seventeen, won the Nobel Prize in nineteen ninety-two, the Caribbean's major laureate in English. Critics view his long Homeric epic poem Omeros as his greatest achievement.
In practice
A Caribbean Nobel laureate.
Where people slip
Walcott wrote plays and poems.
Your place on the trail
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