All that glitters is not gold.William Shakespeare
“The hurricane does not roar in pentameters.”
Barbadian poet and historian · 1930 – 2020
Barbadian poet and historian whose idea of 'nation language' reshaped Caribbean poetry. He argued its rhythms should follow the hurricane and the calypso rather than the English pentameter, and he chronicled African retentions in Caribbean culture.
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