Awards and Honors

• 1962 – First prize, Poetry Society of America, for “No Voyage”
• 1968 – Devil’s Advocate Award, for “Christmas, 1966”
• 1972 – Shelley Memorial Award
• 1972-73 – National Endowment for the Arts fellow
• 1973 – Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
• 1980-81 – Guggenheim fellow
• 1983 – Award in Literature, American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters
• 1984 – Pulitzer Prize, for American Primitive
• 1991 – Christopher  Award and L. L. Winship Award, both for House of Light
• 1992 – National Book Award for Poetry, for New and Selected Poems
• 1993 – Ohioana Book Award, for New and Selected Poems
• 1998 – Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
• 1999 – New England Book Award for Literary Excellence from the New England Booksellers Association

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