Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean - Hardcoverby Justine McConnell (Author), Laura Jansen (Editor) Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott developed between the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Caribbean. Derek Walcott and the Creation of a