Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer

Derek Walcott''s Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott''s epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets. It explores Walcott''s conscious use of the Odyssey and the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbea...