Edward Snow
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from Rice UniversityRice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
, University of California, Riverside
University of California, Riverside
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, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D.
He is a professor of English at Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
, and lives in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
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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.
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 YoungDavid Young-Music:*David Young , American instrumentalist*Dave Young , Canadian rock musician*David J. Young, American musician/composer-Science:*David Allan Young , American entomologist*David M. Young, Jr...
, among the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators.