is the first collection of prose writing by the Caribbean Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in the U.S. and by Faber & Faber in Great Britain (all references in this entry are to the Faber & Faber edition). The collection is divided into three sections. The first consists of three wide-ranging essays of cultural criticism: “What the Twilight Says”, “The Muse of History”, and Walcott’s Nobel Prize Lecture, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory”. The second section consists of ten essays of literary criticism and incorporates contributions by Walcott to a range of publications, including
The New York Review of Books,
The Atlantic,and
The New Republicover a period of approximately twenty years.…
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Citation: Seeger, Sean. "What the Twilight Says". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 May 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8739, accessed 09 December 2024.]