Awards and Honours
- 1968 Newdigate Prize
- 1971 Eric Gregory Award
- 1981 Southern Arts Literature Award for Poetry
- 1983 Fellowship of The Royal Society of Literature
- 1984 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- 1994 Oxford Professor of Poetry
- 1994 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, for Out of Danger
- 1999 Honorary Fellowship of Magdalen College
- 2003 Fellowship of The Royal Society of Arts
- 2007 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
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