Emerging Image: The Poetry of Edward Brathwaite

Symbol and meaning in the poetry of Edward Brathwaite

“…But it can be concentrated, concentrated in poems that will stand beside the very best that is being written in English at the present time." 6 Similarly Kenneth Goodwin warned against the danger of reading Brathwaite for "exclusively sociological rather than literary reasons" and sought in his essay "to relate Brathwaite to the mainstream of twentieth century writing in English by examining a little of the texture of his verse.""! Of Brathwaite's characteristic delight in linguistic malformations and surprises, Goodwin wrote as follows:…”