Born: 5-Apr-1904
Birthplace: Austin, MN
Died: 9-Jun-2005
Location of death: Hanover, NH
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Collected Poems

Military service: US Naval Reserve (WWII)

Mother: (d. 1921)
Wife: Helen Butcher (m. 1941, two children)

    University: University of Minnesota
    University: BA, Dartmouth College (1926)
    University: St. John's College, Cambridge University (1929)
    University: MA, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1933)
    University: Harvard University
    Professor: Dartmouth College (1956-70)

    Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1962 (shared)
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1966 for Selected Poems: 1930-1965
    National Book Award for Poetry 1977 for Collected Poems: 1930-1976

Author of books:
A Bravery of Earth (1930, poetry)
Reading the Spirit (1937, poetry)
Song and Idea (1942, poetry)
Poems: New and Selected (1945, poetry)
Burr Oaks (1947, poetry)
Brotherhood of Men (1949, poetry)
Undercliff: Poems 1946-1953 (1953, poetry)
Great Praises (1957, poetry)
Collected Verse Plays (1962, poetry)
The Quarry: New Poems (1964, poetry)
Selected Poems: 1930-1965 (1965, poetry)
Shifts of Being (1968, poetry)
Collected Poems: 1930-1976 (1976, poetry)
Of Poetry and Poets (1979, criticism)
The Long Reach: New and Uncollected Works 1948-1984 (1984, poetry)
New and Selected Poems: 1930-1990 (1990, poetry)

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