Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer : Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

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Derek Walcott’s Encounter with Homer: Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
	A Poetics of Simultaneity
	Walcott and Oral Composition
	Reading on a Diagonal
	“Master, I was the freshest of all your readers”
	Themes and Chapter Summaries
Part I: Odysseys
	1: An Odyssean Poem
		The Poet of the Sea
		Walcott’s Odysseus
		“a sail leaving harbour and a sail coming in”
		The Structures of Omeros and the Odyssey
	2: Roots and Routes
		The Terraqueous Island
		Odysseus after the Odyssey
		Land and Sea in Homer
		Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version
		Omeros: From Tree to Canoe
Part II: The Islanders
	3: Achille
		The Death of Hector
		Africa and the Inland Journey
		The Tribe’s Triumphal Sorrow
		Founding Home
	4: Philoctete
		Philoctete and Philoctetes
		Philoctete’s Garden
		Alcinous’s Gardens
		Laertes’s Orchard
		Ma Kilman’s Grove
	5: Plunkett
		Pig Farming
		Eumaeus the Swineherd
		Circean History
		Maud
Part III: The Poet
	6: The Tribal Poet
		The Tribal Poet
		Autobiography and Epic
		Catherine Weldon
		H/omeric Encounters
	7: Homeric Shadow, H/omeric Light
		Homecoming
		Homeric Shadow, H/omeric Light
		Omeros
		Soufriére
		“an epic where every line was erased . . .”
References
Index of Homeric Passages
Index of Walcott Citations
General Index