Robert Lowell (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Besides his free translations or rewritings of poems by writers from Homer to Boris Pasternak, which constitute Imitations and the similar translations of Roman poems in Near the Ocean, Robert Lowell translated Jean Racine’s play Phaedra (published in 1961, premiered at Wesleyan University in 1965) and Aeschylus’s play...

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