Award Creative Arts Award

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1944-1945)

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-1987)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)

Bollingen Prize (1967)

Jefferson Lecture (1974)

Gold Medal for Poetry ( [1985])

Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1975)

Distinguished Alumnus Award ( [1950])

National Arts Foundation Award (1968)

National Medal of Arts (1987)

National Medal of Literature (1970)

Founder's Medalist (1925)

Award for Distinction in Literature ( [1973])

Ten Best Teachers Award ( [1972])

Shelley Memorial Award (1943)

MacArthur Prize (1981)

Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., Award ( [1977])

Phi Beta Kappa (1925)

Rhodes Scholar (1928-1930)

Guggenheim Fellowship

Warren-Brooks Award

Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt University)

English Committee of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College (1967-68)

U.S. Naval Academy (declined due to injury)

Only poet to have served twice as U.S. Poet Laureate