Hamner describes Omeros as an epic of the dispossessed because each of its protagonists is a castaway in one sense or another. Regardless of whether their ances

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere

Gale Researcher Guide for: The English Epic, Revised: Form, Lost Edens, and the Politics of Empire in Derek Walcott's Omeros is selected from Gale's academic pl

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the cro