Awards
- Jeanette S Davis Prize and Levinson prize, both from Poetry in 1942
- Contemporary Poetry prize, 1943
- American Academy of Arts and Letters grant, 1944
- Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, 1944, 1953
- Pulitzer Prize in poetry, 1945, for V-Letter and Other Poems
- Shelley Memorial Prize, 1946
- Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate), 1946–47
- Kenyon School of Letters fellowship, 1956–57
- Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, 1961
- Oscar Blumenthal Prize, Poetry, 1963
- Bollingen Prize, 1968
- Robert Kirsch Award, LA Times, 1989
- Charity Randall Citation, 1990
- Fellow in American Letters, Library of Congress
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