Martin Greenberg (poet)

For others see Martin Greenberg (disambiguation)

Martin Greenberg (born February 3, 1918 Norfolk, Virginia) is an American poet and translator.

Life

He was the son of a Jewish couple, immigrants from Lithuania. His elder brother, Clement Greenberg became the most influential art critic in the U.S. in the 1950's - 1970's. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Served in World War II becoming staff sergeant. He married Paula Fox on June 9, 1962, and they have a son David.^[1]

His translations have appeared in The New Criterion.^[2]

Awards

• 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Works

Translations

• Martin Greenberg (March 2001). "Four poems by Rainer Maria von Rilke". The New Criterion. http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/rilke-greenberg-2226. 
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1992). Faust: A Tragedy, Part One. Translator Martin Greenberg. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300056563. http://books.google.com/?id=_NoHKeZs2mYC&dq=Martin+Greenberg+poet&printsec=frontcover. 
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1998). Faust. Part two. Translator Martin Greenberg. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300068269. http://books.google.com/?id=ba6pqapZErQC&pg=PA22&dq=Martin+Greenberg+poet. 
• Heinrich von Kleist (1960). The Marquise of O: and other stories. Translator Martin Greenberg. Criterion Books. ISBN 0140443592. 
• Heinrich von Kleist (1988). Five Plays. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300042388. 
• Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Joseph Kresh (1948). Max Brod. ed. The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Translator Joseph Kresh, Hannah Arendt, Martin Greenberg. Schocken Books. 

Non-fiction

• The terror of art: Kafka and modern literature. Basic Books. 1968. 

References

1. ^ "Martin Greenberg", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009
2. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54594920.html

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