Edward A. Snow is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and translator.

Life

He graduated from

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, and

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, in 1969 with a Ph.D. He is a professor of English at

, and lives in

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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 The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many ...

Bibliography

Translations

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Non-fiction

* ''A Priest to the Temple: Or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Life'' (1952) * * (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.”

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Snow, Edward Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets Rice University alumni University of California, Riverside alumni University at Buffalo alumni Rice University faculty German–English translators Translators of Rainer Maria Rilke