Awards and Honors
- 1978 Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, Yale University
- 1979 Fellowship of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1981 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation award.
- 1986 Honorary doctorate of literature from Oxford University
- The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence
- 1986 National Book Critics Award for Criticism, for Less Than One (essay collection)
- 1987 Nobel Prize
- 1989 Honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
- 1991 United States Poet Laureate
- 1991 Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award
- 1993 Honorary degree from the University of Silesia in Poland
- Honorary member of the International Academy of Science.
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