Imitations / by Robert Lowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977, editor, translator.

Contributor:

Parker, Francis Stanley, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Translations into English.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 149 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Fourth printing.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [publisher not identified], 1965.

Contents:

The killing of Lykaon / Homer

Three letters to Anaktoria / Sappho

Children / Der Wilde Alexander

The great Testament ; Ballad for the dead ladies ; The old lady's lament for her youth ; Villon's prayer for his mother ; Villon's epitaph / François Villon

The infinite ; Saturday night in the village ; Sylvia / Giacomo Leopardi

Sic transit / Johann Peter Hebel

Heine dying in Paris / Heinrich Heine

Russia 1812 ; At Gautier's grave / Victor Hugo

To the reader ; My Beatrice ; Spleen ; Autumn ; The ruined garden ; The flawed bell ; Meditation ; The injured moon ; The abyss ; The swan ; Voyage to Cythera ; The servant ; The game ; The voyage / Charles Baudelaire

Nostalgia ; The poet at seven ; The drunken boat ; Eighteen-seventy : I. A poster of our dazzling victory at Saarbrucken. II. Napoleon after Sedan. III. To the French of the second Empire. IV. On the road. V. At the Green Caberet. VI. A malicious girl. VII. The sleeper in the valley. VIII. Evil ; The lice hunters / Arthur Rimbaud

At Gautier's grave / Stéphane Mallarmé

Helen / Paul Valéry

A Roman sarcophagus ; The cadet pecture of my father ; Self-portrait ; Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes ; Pigeons / Rainer Maria Rilke

Winter noon / Umberto Saba

You knocked yourself out / Giuseppe Ungaretti

Dora Markus ; Day and night ; The magnolia's shadow ; Hitlerian spring ; The coastguard house ; Arsenio ; The chess player ; News from Mount Amiata ; The Eel ; Little testament / Eugenio Montale

Black spring / Innokentii Annensky

September ; For Anna Akhmatova ; Mephistopheles ; The seasons ; Sparrow hills ; Wild vines ; In the woods ; The landlord ; Hamlet in Russia, a soliloquy / Boris Pasternak.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Fourth Printing, 1965."

"Drawing on title-page by Frank Parker."

Poems by other poets translated from various languages into English by the author.

Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

16674543