Imitations

Not quite translations--yet something much more much richer than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowells 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 Lowells telling Introduction a single volume a small anthology of European poetry.