Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1913, Nov. 10 | Born, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1937-1939 | Attended Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1941-1945 | Served in the United States Army |
| 1942 | Published Person, Place and Thing. [New York]: Reynal & Hitchcock Published The Place of Love. [Malvern, Australia: Bradley Printers] Awarded Jeanette S. Davis Prize |
| 1943 | Awarded Levinson Prize Awarded Contemporary Poetry Prize |
| 1944 | Published V-Letter and Other Poems. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock |
| 1945 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize in poetry Awarded Shelley Memorial Prize Married Evalyn Katz (divorced 1967) |
| 1945-1946 | Awarded Guggenheim fellowship |
| 1946-1947 | Consultant in poetry, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| 1947-1950 | Associate professor of writing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1950-1956 | Editor, Poetry Magazine |
| 1953 | Published Poems, 1940-1953. New York: Random House Published Beyond Criticism. [Lincoln]: University of Nebraska Press |
| 1953-1954 | Awarded Guggenheim fellowship |
| 1956-1966 | Professor of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. |
| 1958 | Published Poems of a Jew. New York: Random House |
| 1960 | Published In Defense of Ignorance. New York: Random House |
| 1964 | Published The Bourgeois Poet. New York: Random House |
| 1965 | Published A Prosody Handbook, with Robert Beum. New York: Harper & Row |
| 1966-1968 | Professor of English, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1967 | Married Teri Kovach (died 1982) |
| 1968 | Published To Abolish Children. Chicago: Quadrangle Books |
| 1968-1985 | Professor of English, University of California, Davis, Calif. |
| 1969 | Awarded Bollingen Prize for poetry |
| 1975 | Published The Poetry Wreck, Selected Essays, 1950-1970. New York: Random House |
| 1978 | Published Collected Poems, 1940-1978. New York: Random House |
| 1985 | Married Sophie Wilkins |
| 1987 | Published New and Selected Poems, 1940-1986. Chicago: University of Chicago Press |
| 1989 | Robert Kirsch award, Los Angeles Times |
| 2000, May 14 | Died, New York, N.Y. |