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Born March 1, 1920 • New York City • New York
Died July 5, 1991 (aged 71) • Missouri
Title / Office poet laureate (1989-1990) • poet laureate (1988-1989)
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1981) • Pulitzer Prize (1978)
Notable Works “Blue Swallows” • “Inside the Onion” • “Mirrors and Windows” • “Sentences” • “The Homecoming Game” • “The Image and the Law” • “The Melodramatists” • “The Salt Garden” • “War Stories”
Subjects Of Study poetry

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Richard Eberhart
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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James Merrill
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
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Randall Jarrell
American poet and critic
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John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet

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