Edward A. Snow Explained

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,^[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

• Book: Sonnets to Orpheus. Rainer Maria Rilke. North Point Press. 2004. 978-0-86547-611-0 .
• Book: Duino Elegies. Rainer Maria Rilke. North Point Press. 2000. 978-0-86547-546-5 .
• Book: Uncollected Poems . Rainer Maria Rilke . North Point Press . 1996 . 978-0-86547-482-6 .
• Book: The Book of Images . Rainer Maria Rilke . North Point Press . 1991 . 978-0-86547-468-0 .
• Book: New Poems [1908]

  The Other Part]

  . Rainer Maria Rilke. North Point Press. 1987. 978-0-86547-271-6.
• Book: New Poems [1907]]. 1984. Rainer Maria Rilke. North Point Press. 978-0-86547-415-4. registration.
• Book: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [1910]. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. 2022. Rainer Maria Rilke. W W Norton. 978-0-39388-208-7 .

Non-fiction

• A Priest to the Temple: Or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Life (1952)
• Book: Inside Bruegel . North Point Press. 1997. 978-0-86547-527-4 .
• Book: A Study of Vermeer. 1979. University of California Press. 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty Information System - Scholarly Interest Report. Report.rice.edu. 15 March 2019.
2. Web site: Edward Snow - Poet - Academy of American Poets. Edward. Snow. 11 April 2001. Poets.org. 15 March 2019.
3. Web site: PEN American Center - PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Winners . 2009-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090522053000/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/902 . 2009-05-22 . dead .
4. News: Devil or Angel. Michael Dirda. Washington Post. March 31, 1996 .