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Awards and Honors
1952-53 – Fulbright Scholarship to study in Austria
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1952 – Robert Frost Poetry Prize
1955 – Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, given by
Poetry
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1957 – Yale Series of Younger Poets award, for
The Green Wall
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1958-9 –
Kenyon Review
Poetry Fellowship
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1959 – $1500 grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960 – Ohioana Book Award for
Saint Judas
1960 – $200 citation from the Poetry Society of America
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1964 – Guggenheim Fellowship
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1968 – Oscar Blumenthal Award, given by
Poetry
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1970 – Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University
1971 – Academy of American Poets Fellowship
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1972 – Melville Cane Award, Poetry Society of America
1978 – Guggenheim Fellowship
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1978 – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, University of Columbia, for
Collected Poems
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