Imitations

by Robert Lowell

2021-05-26 02:53:01

Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell''s conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic engagements with a diverse range of voices from the... Read more

Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell''s conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic engagements with a diverse range of voices from the Western canon. Moving chronologically from Homer to Pasternak--and including such master poets en route as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Montale--the fascinating and hugely informed pieces in this book are themselves meant to be read as "a whole," according to Lowell''s telling Introduction, "a single volume, a small anthology of European poetry."

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ISBN9780374502607
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – Sep 12, 1977) was an American poet. Lowell wrote in both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from Life Studies and N...

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