| Author Quoted | Robert Lowell |
| Title Quoted | Imitations |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/10/17 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1958 |
| Quotation | Lowell's Imitations, a fascinating book. He has developed the vein I liked least in Lord Weary's Castle of taking liberties with the language and experience of foreign poets. It is no longer they-no longer Baudelaire, but something fascinating, a picture of Baudelaire's idea with the solidity of Hogarth, for Lowell's is an 18th century idiom. He cannot imitate Valery, no one can. He is good at Rimbaud and Pasternak. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 170 |
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