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Winners of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Given by Yale University (annually from 1949 to 1962, and biennially since 1965) to an American poet in recognition of their entire body of work.
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Anthony Hecht (born 1923)
American poet.
- 1983 Bollingen Prize winner
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Donald Justice (born 1925)
American poet.
- 1991 Bollingen Prize winner
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Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings) (born 1894, died 1962)
American poet.
- 1957 Bollingen Prize winner
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Gary Snyder (born 1930)
American poet and essayist.
- 1997 Bollingen Prize winner
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Howard Nemerov (born 1920, died 1991)
American poet.
- 1981 Bollingen Prize winner
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John Ashbery (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1985 Bollingen Prize winner
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John Berryman (born 1914, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1969 Bollingen Prize winner
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Mark Strand (born 1934)
American poet.
- 1993 Bollingen Prize winner
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Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
American poet.
- 1971 Bollingen Prize winner
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Robert Penn Warren (born 1905, died 1989)
American novelist and poet.
- 1967 Bollingen Prize winner for Poetry
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Robert Frost (born 1874, died 1963)
American poet.
- 1962 Bollingen Prize winner
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Theodore Roethke (born 1908, died 1963)
American poet.
- 1958 Bollingen Prize winner
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Wallace Stevens (born 1879, died 1955)
American poet.
- 1949 Bollingen Prize winner
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William Stanley ''W.S.'' Merwin (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1979 Bollingen Prize winner
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William Carlos Williams (born 1883, died 1963)
American poet, short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and physician.
- 1952 Bollingen Prize winner
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James Merrill (born 1926, died 1995)
American poet.
- 1973 Bollingen Prize winner
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Archie Randolph ''A.R.'' Ammons (born 1926)
American poet.
- 1975 Bollingen Prize winner
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Richard Eberhart (born 1904)
American poet.
- 1961 Bollingen Prize winner
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John Crowe Ransom (born 1888, died 1974)
American poet and critic.
- 1950 Bollingen Prize winner
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Allen Tate (born 1899, died 1979)
American poet and critic.
- 1956 Bollingen Prize winner
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Delmore Schwartz (born 1913, died 1966)
American poet and short-story writer.
- 1959 Bollingen Prize winner
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Ivor Winters (born 1900, died 1968)
American poet and critic.
- 1960 Bollingen Prize winner
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John Hall Wheelock (born 1886, died 1978)
American poet.
- 1961 Bollingen Prize winner
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Horace Gregory (born 1898, died 1982)
American poet.
- 1965 Bollingen Prize winner
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Karl Shapiro (born 1913)
American poet and critic.
- 1969 Bollingen Prize winner
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David Ignatow (born 1914)
American poet.
- 1977 Bollingen Prize winner
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John Hollander (born 1929)
American poet.
- 1983 Bollingen Prize winner
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Fred Chappel (born 1936)
American poet and novelist.
- 1985 Bollingen Prize winner
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Stanley Kunitz (born 1905)
American poet.
- 1987 Bollingen Prize winner
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Edgar Bowers (born 1924, died 2000)
American poet.
- 1989 Bollingen Prize winner
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Kenneth Koch (born 1925)
American poet and playwright.
- 1995 Bollingen Prize winner
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Wystan Hugh ''W.H.'' Auden (born 1907, died 1973)
English poet.
- 1953 Bollingen Prize winner
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Archibald MacLeish (born 1892, died 1982)
American poet and playwright.
- 1952 Bollingen Prize winner
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Conrad Aiken (born 1889, died 1973)
American novelist and poet.
- 1955 Bollingen Prize winner
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Robert White Creeley (born 1926)
American poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and editor
- 1999 Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner
Winners of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Given by Yale University (annually from 1949 to 1962, and biennially since 1965) to an American poet in recognition of their entire body of work.
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Mona Van Duyn (born 1921)
American poet.
- 1971 Bollingen Prize winner
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Leonie Adams (born 1899, died 1988)
American poet.
- 1954 Bollingen Prize winner
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Louise Bogan (born 1897, died 1970)
American poet.
- 1954 Bollingen Prize winner
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May Swenson (born 1919)
American poet.
- 1981 Bollingen Prize winner
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Laura Riding Jackson (born 1901, died 1991)
American poet.
- 1991 Bollingen Prize winner
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Marianne Moore (born 1887, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1951 Bollingen Prize winner
