Poetry
- 2009 — Mark Strand
- 2003 — W. S. Merwin
- 1997 — John Ashbery
- 1991 — Richard Wilbur
- 1985 — Robert Penn Warren
- 1979 — Archibald MacLeish
- 1973 — John Crowe Ransom
- 1968 — W. H. Auden
- 1963 — William Carlos Williams
- 1958 — Conrad Aiken
- 1953 — Marianne Moore
- 1939 — Robert Frost
- 1929 — Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1911 — James Whitcomb Riley
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“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)