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Willard R. Trask (1900–1980)

Author of Medieval Lyrics of Europe

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Germinal (1885) — Translator, some editions — 6,124 copies, 89 reviews
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion (1957) — Translator, some editions — 3,108 copies, 21 reviews
Mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature (1942) — Translator, some editions — 2,651 copies, 17 reviews
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History (1949) — Translator, some editions — 1,643 copies, 12 reviews
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1951) — Translator, some editions — 1,300 copies, 17 reviews
The Story of My Life (1789) — Translator, some editions — 1,251 copies, 14 reviews
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949) — Translator, some editions — 844 copies, 12 reviews
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries (1975) — Translator, some editions — 831 copies, 6 reviews
Myth and Reality (1963) — Translator, some editions — 770 copies, 10 reviews
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity (1978) — Translator, some editions — 599 copies, 4 reviews
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948) — Translator, some editions — 541 copies, 1 review
Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth (1956) — Translator, some editions — 502 copies, 3 reviews
The Black Swan (1953) — Translator, some editions; Translator, some editions — 292 copies, 10 reviews
History of My Life, Vols. 1 & 2 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 239 copies, 3 reviews
Joan of Arc: In her own words (1996) — Editor, some editions — 237 copies, 4 reviews
Hyperion and Selected Poems (1990) — Translator — 128 copies
History of My Life, Vols. 3 & 4 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 115 copies, 2 reviews
History of My Life, Vols. 5 & 6 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 104 copies
History of My Life, Vols. 9 & 10 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 90 copies, 1 review
History of My Life, Vols. 11 & 12 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 89 copies, 1 review
History of My Life, Vols. 7 & 8 (1997) — Translator, some editions — 81 copies
Adventures of Casanova (1822) — Translator, some editions — 56 copies
Great Spanish Stories (1956) — Translator — 47 copies, 2 reviews
Beethoven and his nephew : a psychoanalytic study of their relationship (1971) — Translator, some editions — 17 copies

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Canonical name
Trask, Willard R.
Legal name
Trask, Willard Ropes
Other names
TRASK, Willard Ropes
TRASK, Willard R.
TRASK, Willard
Birthdate
1900-02-06
Date of death
1980-08-10
Gender
male
Education
Harvard University
Occupations
translator
Awards and honors
National Book Award for Translation (1967)
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Berlin, Germany
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Place of death
New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map)
New York, New York, USA

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