In Whit Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristics subjects -the Caribbean´n complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholding of ol Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccommodating sublime of the new world, time´s cunning passages, the poet´s place in all of this -with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greaest work.