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Edward Baugh was born on 10 January, 1936 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, is a Jamaican poet and scholar (1936–2023). Discover Edward Baugh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Poet and scholar
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January, 1936
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Port Antonio, Jamaica
Date of death 9 December, 2023
Died Place Kingston, Jamaica
Nationality Jamaican

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1900

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.

1936

Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, 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.

Edward Alston Cecil Baugh was born on 10 January 1936 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, the son of Edward Percival Baugh, purchasing agent, and Ethel Maud Duhaney-Baugh.

He began writing poetry at Titchfield High School.

1964

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 in England, where he earned a PhD in 1964.

1965

Baugh 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.

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.

1988

Baugh's poems appeared in various magazines and anthologies years before the publication of his first collection, A Tale from the Rainforest (1988).

1998

Chancellor, I Present (1998) collects a number of the citations Baugh prepared and delivered as Public Orator of The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, for the presentation of honorary degrees during the annual presentation of graduates ceremony.

2000

This was followed by It Was the Singing (2000) and Black Sand: New and Selected Poems (2013).

2012

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

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

Baugh died in Kingston early on 10 December 2023, at the age of 87, survived by his wife Sheila and their daughters Sarah and Katherine.