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 `.
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
