Imitations
- ISBN-10
- 0374174768
- ISBN-13
- 9780374174767
- Pages
- 149
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Robert Lowell
Description
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."
