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...Stevens began to publish the magazine "Poetry," for which he has won two prizes. He also was awarded the Bollingen Prize from the Yale University Library in 1949. Among his works are "Harmonium," a collection of lyric poems, "Auroras of Autumn," and several plays...
...Bollingen committee knew all that. Tennessee-born John Ransom, professor of poetry at Ohio's Kenyon College and editor of the Kenyon Review, has published no verse since his Selected Poems in 1945. The award, said Conrad Aiken, committee chairman, was based on Ransom's "contribution to American poetry...
When Yale awarded the annual Bollingen Prize* in poetry (and $1,000) to John Crowe Ransom, no one was more surprised than John Crowe Ransom. Said that self-effacing poet, teacher and critic...
...reputation in avant-garde literary circles is just as solid as his reputation in business. His latest bouquet from U.S. poetry pundits was this year's Bollingen Prize.* Stevens makes no excuses for his double life. "Poetry," says he, "is my way of making the world palatable. It's a way of making one's experience, almost wholly inexplicable, acceptable." Nor does he make any excuses for his poems' obscurity...
When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...