Un’altra “imitation” di Robert Lowell

Authors

  • Francesco Mulas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/9091

Keywords:

poetry, sonnet, romantic poet, re-interpretation

Abstract

This essay traces the origin of "Will not Come Back (Volverán)" by Robert Lowell, which he never openly stated to be either an original poem or a translation-or rather an "imitation," as he used to call this sort of composition. Mulas also points out the differences between this poem and the sonnet by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, a well-known Spanish romantic poet who inspired Lowell. A close analysis of the two poems shows what is preserved of the original and what is new in Lowell's re-interpretation.

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Published

1990-09-01

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