Edward Baugh

Edward Baugh

Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (born 10 January, 1936) is a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott.

He was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and began writing poetry at Titchfield High School. He won a scholarship to study English literature at the University College of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, and later did his postgraduate studies at Queen's University in Ontario and the University of Manchester, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1964. He taught at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies from 1965 to 1967, then at the university's Mona campus from 1968 to 2001, eventually being appointed professor of English in 1978 and public orator in 1985.

cholarly works

His scholarly publications include "West Indian Poetry 1900-1970: A Study in Cultural Decolonisation" (1971); "Critics on Caribbean Literature" (1978); "Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision" (1978), the first book-length study of Walcott's work; and an annotated edition of Walcott’s "Another Life" (2004), with Colbert Nepaulsingh. "Chancellor, I Present" (1998) collects a number of the addresses Baugh delivered as UWI's public orator on the occasion of the presentation on honorary degrees.

Poetry

Baugh's poems appeared in various magazines and anthologies years before the publication of his first collection, "A Tale from the Rainforest" (1988). This was followed by "It Was the Singing" (2000).


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