Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.

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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,[1] and lives in Houston, Texas.[2]

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[3]

Bibliography

Translations

• Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). Sonnets to Orpheus. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-611-0.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (2000). Duino Elegies. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-546-5.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). Uncollected Poems. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-482-6.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1991). The Book of Images. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-468-0.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1987). New Poems [1908]: The Other Part. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-271-6.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). New Poems [1907]. North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-415-4.
• Rainer Maria Rilke (2022). The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [1910]. 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)
• Inside Bruegel. North Point Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-86547-527-4.
• A Study of Vermeer. University of California Press. 1979. 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.”[4]

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