Which diasporic writer reworks the English country-house poem made famous by Ben Jonson's "To…
St. Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott reworks the English country-house poem tradition (of Jonson's 'To Penshurst' and Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House') in his postcolonial…
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Which diasporic writer reworks the English country-house poem made famous by Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" and Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" in -
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St. Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott reworks the English country-house poem tradition (of Jonson's 'To Penshurst' and Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House') in his postcolonial poem 'Ruins of a Great House' (1962), exposing the plantation slavery beneath imperial grandeur.
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