Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000
Visions of Light
By Al Alvarez
Tiepolo's Hound
by Derek Walcott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 164 pp., $30.00
When Derek Walcott's first book of poems was published in London in 1962, it came with the blessing of Robert Graves, one of the twentieth century's finest and most underrated poets, and a title from Andrew Marvell—In a Green Night. The title was a muted gesture toward Modernism, since T.S. Eliot had been the major force behind the rediscovery of Marvell after two and a half centuries of neglect. But Eliot had cosmopolitan tastes and initially he had been drawn to the Metaphysical poets because they reminded him of Laforgue and Corbière.
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