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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was born in Castries, St. Lucia on January 23, 1930. Walcott was the son of a British father and a West Indian mother. His meticulously honed poems and evocative dramas exalt the English language while

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What notoriously violent twelfth century troubadour was the inspiration for Ezra Pound's "Sestina: Altaforte"?

Answer

Bertrans de Born (c.1140-1215). He famously lead a rebellion against the English king Henry II, only to reconcile with him by writing an elegy for Henry's son.

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