About the Book

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."

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 149 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (Sep. 30th, 1990)

ISBN-10: 0374502609

ISBN-13: 9780374502607

Dimensions: 5.64 x 8.46 x 0.43 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.49 lbs

• Categories: General American Poetry