Edward A. Snow

{{short description|American poet and translator}}

{{BLP sources|date=March 2019}}

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|name=Edward A. Snow

|occupation={{flatlist|

  • Poet
  • translator

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|nationality=American

|education=Rice University
University of California, Riverside
University at Buffalo (PhD)

|awards=Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1985)
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (1997)

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Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.

Life

He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D.

He is a professor of English at Rice University,{{cite web|url=http://report.rice.edu/sir/faculty.detail?p=357BF80E838DB9F1|title=Faculty Information System - Scholarly Interest Report|website=Report.rice.edu|access-date=15 March 2019}} and lives in Houston, Texas.{{cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edward-snow|title=Edward Snow - Poet - Academy of American Poets|first=Edward|last=Snow|date=11 April 2001|website=Poets.org|access-date=15 March 2019}}

Awards

  • 1985 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
  • Academy of Arts and Letters Award for the body of his Rilke translations
  • 1997 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation{{Cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/902 |title=PEN American Center - PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Winners |access-date=2009-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522053000/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/902 |archive-date=2009-05-22 |url-status=dead }}

Bibliography

=Translations=

  • {{cite book| title=Sonnets to Orpheus| author=Rainer Maria Rilke| publisher=North Point Press| year=2004| isbn=978-0-86547-611-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Duino Elegies| author=Rainer Maria Rilke| publisher=North Point Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-86547-546-5 }}
  • {{cite book | title=Uncollected Poems | author=Rainer Maria Rilke | publisher=North Point Press | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-86547-482-6 | url=https://archive.org/details/uncollectedpoems00rilk }}
  • {{cite book | title=The Book of Images | author=Rainer Maria Rilke | publisher=North Point Press | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-86547-468-0 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780865474772 }}
  • {{cite book| title=New Poems [1908]: The Other Part| author=Rainer Maria Rilke| publisher=North Point Press| year=1987| isbn=978-0-86547-271-6| url=https://archive.org/details/newpoems190800rain}}
  • {{cite book| title=New Poems [1907]| year=1984| author=Rainer Maria Rilke| publisher=North Point Press| isbn=978-0-86547-415-4| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/newpoems19070000rilk}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [1910]| title-link=The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge| year=2022| author=Rainer Maria Rilke| publisher=W W Norton| isbn=978-0-39388-208-7 }}

=Non-fiction=

  • A Priest to the Temple: Or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Life (1952)
  • {{cite book| title=Inside Bruegel | publisher=North Point Press| year=1997| isbn=978-0-86547-527-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=A Study of Vermeer| year=1979| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLtM6F0gH6EC&q=edward+snow+poet&pg=RA1-PT1| publisher=University of California Press| isbn=978-0-520-07132-2 }} (revised and expanded, 1994)

Reviews

“Though Freedman's biography may muffle Rilke's voice, it comes through like a ringing glass in Uncollected Poems, translated by Edward Snow, who over the years has given readers without German award-winning versions of The Book of Images (1905) and New Poems (1907-1908). Snow is, with Stephen Mitchell and David Young, among the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators.”{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/rilke.htm| title=Devil or Angel| author=Michael Dirda| newspaper=Washington Post| date=March 31, 1996 }}

References