Derek walcott short biography

Derek Walcott was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, the West Indies, on January 23, His first published poem, “” appeared in The Voice of St. Lucia when he was fourteen years old, and consisted of forty-four lines of blank verse.

By the age of nineteen, Walcott had self-published two volumes, Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (Barbados Advocate, ) and 25 Poems (), exhibiting a wide range of influences, including William Shakespeare, T. S.

Eliot, and Ezra Pound. He later attended the University of the West Indies, having received a Colonial Development and Welfare scholarship, and in , he published the volume Poems.

In , Walcott was awarded a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the American theater.

He published numerous collections of poetry in his lifetime, most recently The Poetry of Derek Walcott – (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); White Egrets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); The Prodigal: A Po