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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and translator.

Life

He graduated from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

, and

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

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

, and lives in Houston, Texas.

Awards

* 1985

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

* 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