IMITATIONS

First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with titles in gilt on blue to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, with a closed diagonal tear (c. 5 cm) to the upper edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (21s to the front flap).

An unusual collection of 'translations' by Robert Lowell of a wide range of poems originally written in a variety of languages other than English, which may be better thought of as creative interpretations, or as Lowell himself puts it, "versions and free translations". The poets featured range from Homer and Sappho to Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak.