Awards and Recognition
She received much recognition for her work. Some of which include:
- American Introductions Prize in 1955;
- William Rose Benet Prize of the Poetry Society of America in 1959;
- Longview Foundation Award in 1959;
- National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1960;
- Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in 1967;
- Lucy Martin Donnelly Award of Bryn Mawr College in 1968;
- Shelley Poetry Award in 1968
- Guggenheim fellowship in 1959,
- Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship in 1960,
- Ford Foundation grant in 1964
- Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1981,
- MacArthur Fellowship in 1987.
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