Imitations - Paperback

by Robert Lowell (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Robert Lowell, one of America's great men of letters, died in 1977.