Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott / compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner.

Part I. Walcott, artist and critic
Society and the artist (1957); History and Picong ... in the middle passage (1962) ; Necessity of Negritude (1964) ; Leaving school (1965) ; The figure of Crusoe (1965) ; Tribal flutes (1967) ; Meanings (1970); The Caribbean : culture or mimicry? (1974) / Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott (1982) / Anthony Milne
The art of poetry (1986) / Edward Hirsch
Part II. The critical reception : (A) 'The divided child' 1948-1959
An introduction to the poetry of Derek Walcott / Frank Collymore
A West Indian poet fulfills his promise / Harold Simmons
Review of 'Epitaph for the young' / Keith Alleyne
Review of 'Henri Christophe' / Aubrey Douglas-Smith
B.B.C.'s broadcast of 'Henri Christophe' / G.A. Holder
'Ione' : colourful but academic / Norman Rae
Company of players win praise for 'Ione' / John Grimes
Allegory in 'Ti-Jean and his brothers' / Albert Ashaolu
Derek Walcott's plays : outrage and compassion / Theodore Colson
(B) 'The estranging sea' 1960-1969
Some subtleties of the isle : a commentary on certain aspects of Derek Walcott's sonnet sequence 'Tales of the islands' / John Figueroa
Readings of 'Laventille' / Kenneth Ramchand
Walcott and the audience for poetry / Mervyn Morris
Dreamers and slaves
the ethos of revolution in Walcott and Leroi Jones / Lloyd Brown
Big night music : Derek Walcott's 'Dream on Monkey Mountain' and 'Splendours of imagination' / Robert E. Fox
Withering into truth : a review of Derek Walcott's 'The gulf and other poems' / Gordon Rohlehr
Walcott versus Brathwaite / Patricia Ismond.

Part II. (C) 'Homage to Gregorias' (1970-1979)
Painters and painting in 'Another life' / Edward Baugh
Breaking myths and maidenheads / Patricia Ismond
Interlude for rest or prelude to disaster? / Victor Questel
'O Babylon!'
where it went wrong / Sule Mombara
Reminiscences of Derek Walcott and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop / Laurence Goldstraw
Ripening with Walcott / Edward Baugh
Displaced person / Edith Oliver
Review of 'Remembrance' / Mark McWatt
White man, Black man / Christopher Gunness
Myth and reality in Caribbean narrative : Derek Walcott's 'Pantomime' / Patirck Taylor
Poems of Caribbean wounds / Benjamin DeMott
The language of exile / Seamus Heaney
(D) 'A simple flame' (1980- )
Derek Walcott : contemporary / Calvin Bedient
One Walcott, and he would be master / Richard Dwyer
Heir apparent / Sven Birkerts
The painter as poet : Derek Walcott's 'Midsummer' / Robert Bensen
The poetry of Derek Walcott / Peter Balakian
Divided child / J.D. McClatchy
The 'Collected poems' and 'Three plays' of Derek Walcott / Bruce King
Warner's 'Beef, no chicken' an inspired production / Judy Stone
Review of 'The last carnival' / Earl Lovelace
On Eurocentric critical theory : some paradigms from the text and sub-texts of post-colonial writing / Diodun Jeyifo
Trinidadian heteroglossia : a Bakhtinian view of Derek Walcott's play 'A branch of the Blue Nile' / Stephen Breslow
Review of the 'Arkansas testament' / Vernon Shetley
A poem in homage to an unwanted man / D.J.R. Bruckner
Bringing him back alive / Mary Lefkowitz.