Honors and Awards
| “ | Tate's originality was confirmed almost thirty years ago when his book The Lost Pilot won the Yale Younger Poets Award....More recently, his books have gained him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry. | ” |
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—John Ashbery, one of the judges that awarded Tate the 1995 Wallace Stevens Award |
Tate was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004; other recognition includes:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry
- National Book Award for Poetry
- 1995 Wallace Stevens Award
- Yale Series of Younger Poets
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