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
