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.
