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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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
““Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers—ask any man among ‘em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he’s an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum—mark that!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.”
—Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)