Awards and Honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites
- Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Brébeuf and his Brethren, E.J. Pratt
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