Introduction / Harold Bloom
The murmur of malvern / Seamus Heaney
Derek Walcott, Contemporary / Calvin Bedient
Poet of two worlds / Helen Vendler
The sound of the tide / Joseph Brodsky
The poetry of Derek Walcott / Peter Balakian
"Either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation" / Rita Dove
The apprentice: 25 poems, epitaph for the young, Poems, and in a green night / Stewart Brown
Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics
"With no Homeric shadow": The disavowal of epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros / Gregson Davis
"The theatre of our lives": Founding an epic drama / Paula Burnett
The wound of postcolonial history: Derek Walcott's Omeros / Jahan Ramazani
Another life: West Indian experience and the problems of narration / Paul Breslin
Derek Walcott: The sigh of history / Wes Davis
