Edward A. Snow

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, and lives in Houston, Texas.

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

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.”