Derek Walcott’s recipe for authorial integrity

“[Sarah] Arvio recalls [Derek Walcott's] recipe for authorial integrity: ‘If we are going to call ourselves poets, we should know the canon. If you say ‘horse’, for example, you should be able to name any number of poems with a horse in it and quote the lines’.”

Eva Salzman: With Regrets Autumn 10 Poetry London

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