Selected Honours and Awards
- 1953: Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for the best first book of poems for Poems
- 1955: Somerset Maugham Prize for A Way of Looking.
- 1987: W.H. Smith Literary Award for Collected Poems 1953–1985
- 1992: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2001: Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Durham University
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