• 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.

Translations

Non-Fiction

• A Priest to the Temple: Or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Life (1952)
• (revised and expanded, 1994)

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.