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Also Known As	Derek Alton Walcott
Born	January 23, 1930 • Castries • Saint Lucia
Died	March 17, 2017 (aged 87) • Saint Lucia
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1992)
Notable Works	“Dream on Monkey Mountain” • “In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960” • “Midsummer” • “Pantomime” • “Sea Grapes” • “Selected Poems” • “The Castaway” • “The Fortunate Traveler” • “The Gulf” • “The Star-Apple Kingdom” • “Ti-Jean and His Brothers”

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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