Tiepolo’s Hound (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Derek Walcott
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry and fine arts
- Time of Work: 1830-1903, 1930-1990’s, sixteenth century, eighteenth century
- Setting: St. Thomas, St. Lucia, and Trinidad, West Indies; New York, N.Y.; Paris and Pontoise, France; London, England; Venice, Italy; and Spain
- Principal Characters: Camille Pissarro, Paulo Veronese, Derek Walcott
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Culture, New York, United States or Americans, France or French people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, New York City, Art or artists, Paris, West Indies, Eighteenth century, London, Painting or painters, Identity, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Spain or Spanish people, England
- Locales: New York, NY, France, Spain, Paris, France, West Indies, London, England, Trinidad, Venice, Italy, St. Lucia, West Indies
Tiepolo’s Hound is the third book-length poem of Derek Walcott’s four decades of work as a poet and dramatist. Walcott is a writer whose stature as a major figure of West Indian and postcolonial world literature was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Following his autobiographical Another Life (1973) and Omeros (1990), in which Walcott transformed Homeric materials into an epic of Caribbean life, Tiepolo’s Hound in part returns to the lyric poet’s autobiographical mode. It also becomes biography, however, as Walcott interweaves an...
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