Martin Greenberg (poet) explained

Martin Greenberg (February 3, 1918 – May 19, 2021) was an American poet and translator.

Martin Greenberg
Birth Date:	3 February 1918

Life

Greenberg was the son of a Jewish couple, immigrants from Lithuania. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in February 1918. His elder brother, Clement Greenberg, was an influential art critic in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s. Martin graduated from the University of Michigan and then served in the United States Army during World War II as a staff sergeant. On June 9, 1962, he married Paula Fox. Martin had a son, David, from a previous marriage and three stepchildren; Linda, Adam and Gabriel.^[1] His translations have appeared in The New Criterion.^[2] He died in Brooklyn, New York, in May 2021 at the age of 103.^[3]

Awards

• 1989 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Works

Translations

• Four poems by Rainer Maria von Rilke. March 2001. Martin Greenberg. The New Criterion. 2009-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613171811/http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/rilke-greenberg-2226. 2011-06-13. dead.
• Book: Faust: A Tragedy, Part One. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translator Martin Greenberg. Yale University Press. 1992. 978-0-300-05656-3.
• Book: Faust. Part two. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translator Martin Greenberg. Yale University Press. 1998. 978-0-300-06826-9 .
• Book: von Kleist, Heinrich. The Marquise of O: and other stories. Heinrich von Kleist. Translator Martin Greenberg. Criterion Books. 1960. 0-14-044359-2. registration.
• Book: von Kleist, Heinrich . Heinrich von Kleist. Five Plays. registration . Yale University Press. 1988. 0-300-04238-8 .
• Book: The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. registration. Translator Joseph Kresh, Hannah Arendt, Martin Greenberg. Franz . Kafka . Franz Kafka . Max . Brod . Max Brod . Max Brod. Schocken Books. 1948.

Non-fiction

• Book: The Terror of Art: Kafka and Modern Literature. Basic Books. 1968 .
• Book: The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth. registration. University of Iowa Press. 1986 . 9781587290961.

Notes and References

1. "Martin Greenberg", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009
2. Web site: Search Results . www.encyclopedia.com . 2 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20120730083657/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54594920.html . 30 July 2012 . dead.
3. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/martin-greenberg-obituary?pid=198758702 Martin Greenberg obituary