Awards and Honors
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- 1952: Newdigate Prize
- 1955: Lamont Poetry Prize, for Exiles and Marriages
- 1956: Edna St Vincent Millay Award
- 1956: Nomination for the National Book Award
- 1963-1964: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1972-1973: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1979: Caldecott Medal, for Ox-Cart Man
- 1979: Nomination for the National Book Award
- 1984-1989: Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
- 1983: Sarah Josepha Hale Award
- 1986: Horn Book Honour List
- 1987: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- 1988: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- 1989: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- 1989: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry
- 1990: Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America
- 1991: Honorary Doctor of Letters (in honoris causa) from Bates College.
- 1993: Nomination for the National Book Award
- 1994: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement.
- 1999: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Without: Poems
- 2006-2007: Fourteenth U.S. Poet Laureate
- 2010: National Medal of Arts
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