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Edward Baugh
Born (1936-01-10) 10 January 1936 (age 88)
Port Antonio, Jamaica
NationalityJamaican
Alma materUniversity College of the West Indies;
Queen's University, Canada;
University of Manchester
Occupation(s)Poet and scholar
Notable workWest Indian Poetry 1900–1970: A Study in Cultural Decolonisation (1971);
Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision (1978)

Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (born 10 January 1936) is a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott,[1] whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision.[2]

Biography

Edward Baugh was born on 10 January 1936 in Port Antonio, Jamaica,[3] the son of Edward Percival Baugh, purchasing agent, and Ethel Maud Duhaney-Baugh.[4] He began writing poetry at Titchfield High School. He won a scholarship to study English literature at the University College of the West Indies and later did postgraduate studies at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, and at the University of Manchester, where he earned a PhD 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.[5] He has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Dalhousie University, University of Hull, University of Wollongong, Flinders University, Macquarie University, University of Miami and Howard University.[4]

In 2012 he was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica.[6]

In March 2021 Baugh was announced as the co-recipient, together with Mervyn Morris, of the 2021 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award.[7]

Scholarly 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) and Black Sand: New and Selected Poems (2013).[8]

Selected bibliography

  • Black Sand: New and Selected Poems (2013)
  • It Was the Singing (2000)
  • I Was a Teacher Too (1991)
  • A Tale from the Rainforest (1988)
  • Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision: "Another Life" (1978)
  • Critics on Caribbean Literature (1978)
  • West Indian Poetry 1900–1970: A Study in Cultural Decolonisation (1971)

References

  1. ^ Carolyn Cooper, "6th Edward Baugh Distinguished lecture". Jamaica Woman Tongue, 27 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Edward Baugh", The Literary Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ Yvonne Grinam-Nicholson, "Professor Edward Baugh – Living the years", The Jamaica Gleaner, 22 July 2001. Archived 6 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ a b "Edward Alston Cecil Baugh", The West Indian Encyclopedia. Archived 6 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ ""Professor Edward Baugh", The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica". Archived from the original on 24 June 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
  6. ^ "Musgrave Awardees". Institute of Jamaica. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Two Jamaican scholars honoured with Bocas Henry Swanzy Award", Jamaica Observer, 5 March 2021.
  8. ^ Mel Cooke (8 December 2013). "Baugh's 'Black Sand' Explores The Overlooked". The Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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