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'Pinata' chosen by Poetry in Transit to appear on British Columbia public transit

1997

A. J. M. Smith Poetry Award

1973

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

2010

2009

2006

Académie française

1925

1894

1886

1845

1829

Affiliated with the League of Canadian Poets

0

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

1981

American Academy of Arts and Letters

1904

0

American Academy of Arts and Letters member

1908

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1797

American Member, Academy of Arts and Letters

1911

American National Academy of Arts

1882

Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship

2006

Arc Poetry Magazine: Critic's Desk Award

2012

Arc Poetry Magazine: Poem of the Year

2013

2010

Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry

1991

Arthur C. Clarke award

1992

Arthur Ellis Award

1988

Arts Alumni Award, Univ. of Waterloo

1999

Award, Amer. Academy & Inst. of Arts and Letters

1991

B.D., Dublin University

1712

B.D., Oxford

1768

Balliol scholarship

1850

Balliol scholarship, Oxford

1837

BBC Peter Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Play

2005

BBC/Radio Times Drama Award

1985

Bell Scholorship

1829

Berkeley gold medal

1874

Bliss Carman Poetry Award

2001

Blues Hall of Fame

1980

Bollingen Award

1953

Bollingen Prize

0

bpNichol Chapbook Award

1989

bpNichol chapbook award: Inverting the Deer

2009

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

2006

2000

Browne medal (Greek ode)

1855

Browne medal for Greek ode

1792

C.B.

1879

C.I.E.

1892

Caius members' prize for Latin Essay

1792

Camden medal

1855

1853

Canada Council Medal, 1968

0

Canada Research Chair

2001

Canadian Author's Association Prize for Nonfiction

1995

Canadian Authors Association Award

1976

Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry

2001

Canadian National Magazine Award

1985

Canonized as an English martyr

1970

Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize

1990

1986

CBC Book Club Award for Best Book of Poetry for <i

2010

CBC Literary Award in poetry

2007

CBE

1951

Centennial Medal

1967

Chancellor's medal

1843

Chancellor's medal for English poem

1824

1823

Chancellor's medal for English verse

1829

Chancellor's prize for Latin verse

1789

Chancellor's prize for Latin verse, Oxford

1783

Chancellor, University of Winnipeg

1996

Chancellorship of the order of the Garter

1596

Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction

2002

Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor

0

Cholmondeley Poetry Award

1966

City of Toronto Book Award

1979

City of Toronto Book Prize

1995

Co-founder, Poetry Society of America, 1910

0

College declamation prize

1823

College Prize for essay on William III

1822

Columbia University Poetry Society Prize

1918

Commander, Order of the British Empire

1960

Commander, Royal Victorian Order

0

Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres

1996

Companion of Honour

1922

Companion of the Bath

1895

Companion of the Order of Australia

1981

Companion of the Order of the British Empire

0

Companion, Order of Canada

2002

Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress

0

Consultant of Poetry at Library of Congress

1952

Copley Foundation Award for painting

1959

Copley Medal

1888

1821

Craven scholarship

1854

1844

1821

Croix de Guerre (War Cross) by the French Republic

1919

Crystal Palace prize for centenary poem on Burns

1858

D.C.L. (Honorary), Bishop's University

0

D.C.L., Oxford

1855

1820

D.C.L., Oxford University

1889

D.D. , University of New Jersey

1792

D.D., Dublin University

1712

D.D., University of Edinburgh

1728

D.D.,Oxford

1768

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

2011

Darwin Medal

1894

David McKeen Award

0

Dayne Ogilvie Prize (Honour of Distinction)

2011

declared Venable by Pope John Paul II

1991

Distinguished Service to Lit., Sat. Review

1940

Doctor Litteris, University of Wales

1926

Doctorate of Letters, Trent University, 1978

0

Doctorate of Literature, University of New Brunswi

1930

Doctorate, Oxford

1904

Doctorate, St. Andrews

1885

Dominion of canada Centennial Medal, 1967

0

Dora Mavor Moore Award

2007

E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry

1966

Edgar Allan Poe award, Academy of American Poets

1974

Elected fellow of London Society of Antiquaries

1771

Elected member of Literary Club

1776

Elected member of the Literary Club

1782

English prize-poem

1821

1819

Expozine Alternative Press Award

2006

F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry

2006

Fellow of Christ's College

1858

Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts

1923

Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts

0

Fellow of the Royal Society

1851

1813

1663

0

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

1962

1947

1934

1929

1893

1882

0

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1850

Fellow of the Royal Society of London

1853

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

1872

Fellow, Royal Geographical Society

0

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

1996

1900

1895

Fellow, Royal Society of Literature

1903

Fellowship

1981

Fellowship at King's College

1912

Fellowship at Oriel

1845

Fellowship at Queen's College, Oxford

1698

Fellowship, Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation

1998

Fellowship, Gugenheim Foundation

1990

Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation

1982

Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress

1999

Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford

1854

Fellowships (6), Canada Council

0

Finalist for National Magazine Awards

1995

First class in classical moderations

1865

First Governor-General's award for fiction

0

First president of the Liverpool Royal Institution

1817

First prize, French and Italian

1853

First Prize, Petra Kenney Poetry Competition

2003

First Prize, Poetry, Writers Fed. of Nova Scotia

1981

First Victoria University Teaching Award

1989

Flavelle Medal

1929

for <i>Think of the Earth</i>

1936

Foundation scholar

1793

Friggin Prize

2009

Frost Medal

1943

G.C.I.E.

1896

Gaisford prize for Greek verse

1865

Gerald Lampert Award (Finalist)

1997

Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry

1986

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Finalist)

2013

2009

2006

Gilford lecturer, St. Andrews

1888

Gold Medal Award, American Acad. of Arts & Letters

1960

Gold Medal for Poetry from the National Institute

0

Gold Medal for Poetry, Nat.Inst. of Arts & Letters

0

Gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature

1905

Gold medal, commemoration of the Synod of Dort

1619

Governor General's Award

1993

Governor General's Award for non-fiction

1977

Governor General's Award for Nonfiction

1991

Governor General's Award for Poetry

2001

1981

1969

1958

1951

1941

Governor General's Award for poetry 1944

0

Governor General's Award, Poetry

1964

Governor General's Literary Award (Finalist)

2008

Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction

1995

Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry

1987

Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry 2009

0

Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry (Finalist)

2009

Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry 2010

0

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

1989

Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur

Griffin Poetry Prize (Finalist)

2013

Griffin Poetry Prize (for <i>Eunoia</i>)

2002

Guggenheim Fellowship

1999

1992

1975

1962

1947

1935

Guggenheim Fellowship,1941-42

0

Guggenheim Foundation fellowship

1984

Guggenheim Foundation grant

1966

Gwendolyn MacEwen Park, Toronto

1994

Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award

1999

Hanseatic Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg University

1938

Harness prize

0

Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, 1941

0

Harriet Monroe Prize

1956

Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award

2007

Helen Haire Levinson Prize

1920

Helen Haire Levinson Prize from Poetry

1933

Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University

2012

Hon. fellow of Balliol College

1868

Hon. LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh

1884

Hon. M.A. of Oxford

1868

Hon. president of 5 Assoc. Societies of Edinburgh

1885

Honorary Associate, Royal Society of Literature

1824

Honorary burgess of Dumfries

0

Honorary D.C.L.

1838

Honorary D.C.L., Bishop's College, Lennoxville

1905

Honorary degree, Cambridge

1820

Honorary degree, Oxford

1820

Honorary doctor of laws, Oxford

1773

Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law, Oxford

1775

Honorary Doctorate, Carleton University

2000

Honorary Doctorate, Concordia University

1998

Honorary Doctorate, Hanover College

1996

Honorary Doctorate, Lakehead University

2001

Honorary Doctorate, Malaspina University and Colle

2003

Honorary Doctorate, Queen's University

1996

Honorary Doctorate, University of British Columbia

1996

Honorary Doctorate, University of Calgary

2001

Honorary Doctorate, University of Manitoba

2003

Honorary Doctorate, University of Ottawa

1995

Honorary Doctorate, University of Toronto

1998

Honorary Doctorate, University of Victoria

2001

Honorary Doctorate, University of Western Ontario

1998

Honorary Doctorate, University of Winnipeg

1996

Honorary Doctorate, Wilfrid Laurier University

2000

Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

1869

Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

1877

Honorary LL.D., Toronto

1902

Honorary M.A.

1668

Honorary M.A., Oxford

1755

Honorary MA, Yale University

1891

Honorary Organist of the Chapel Royal

0

Inaugural Poet Laureate of Barrie (Ontario)

2010

Irving Layton Award

0

Jamaican Institute of Arts & Sciences, gold medal

1912

James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship

0

James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Award

1937

Jessie Mackay Memorial Award

0

Joan Nordell Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University

2011

Joseph Rodman Drake Park, Hunts Point, Bronx.

0

Judge, Griffin Prize

2001

Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize, Poetry Society

1921

K.C.B.

1881

K.C.I.E.

1887

K.M. Hunter Artist Award for literature

2006

K.M. Hunter Foundation Artist Award

0

Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1854

Killam Fellowship

1996

King's fellowship

1845

King's scholarship, Eton

1831

Knight Commander of the British Empire

1969

Knight Commander with Star, Order of St. Gregory

1934

Knight Commander, Order of St.Michael & St.George

1935

Knight of the Bath

1533

Knighthood

1643

1596

1567

0

Koerner Foundation scholarship

1956

L.H.D., Columbia University

0

Lamont Poetry Selection

1978

Lamont Poetry Selection Award

1981

Laureate, Jacobite 'Easy Club'

1715

League of Canadian Poets: Canadian Poetry Chapbook Award for 'Going Santa Fe'

1997

Légion d'honneur

1845

Legion of Honor, France

1919

Levinson Prize

1958

Lieutenant Governor of Acoma Pueblo, NM

0

Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writer's Circle

1993

Lionel Shapiro Prize for Creative Writing

1990

Literary Achievement New Mexico Humainites Council

1989

LL.D., Cambridge University

1891

LL.D., Yale University

0

LLD (Honorary), Queen's University, 1966

0

Lord President of Wales

1660

Lord rector, Glasgow University

1826

Lorne Pierce Medal

2008

1926

Lorne Pierce Medal 1966

0

Lorne Pierce Medal, Royal Society of Canada

0

M.A., Cambridge

1571

0

M.A., Oxford

1759

1610

1592

M.C. (Military Cross)

0

Maisonneuve magazine's literary competition

2006

Malahat Review Long Poem Prize

1999

Many fiction and non-fiction awards, including first prize in the CBC Literary Awards

Marian Engel Award

1990

Mark Twain Medal

0

Master of Arts, Harvard

1720

May Sarton Award

1991

Melbourne contest for best Australian poem

1868

Member Literary and Artistic Institute of France

1935

Member of Royal Society

1662

Member's prize (Latin essay)

1856

Member, British Academy

1902

Member, Canada Council

1994

Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters

0

Member, the National Academy of Arts and Letters

1927

Military Cross

1915

Molson Prize

1967

National Book Award

0

National Book Award for poetry

1963

National Book Award, Poetry

1999

National Book Critics Circle Award

2003

1995

National Book League prize

1964

National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Award

1969

National Historic Person (Government of Canada)

2003

National Institute of Arts and Letters

1950

1898

National Magazine Award in Poetry (Silver)

2012

National Magazine Award of Poetry

2002

National Magazine Brascan Silver Medal for Culture

1986

National Medal for Literature

0

National Medal for Literature, National Academy an

1977

Newcastle scholarship, Eton

1841

Newdigate prize

1878

1843

Newdigate Prize at Oxford

1827

Nobel Prize for Literature

1992

1961

1936

1923

1913

1907

Nobel Prize for Peace

1919

Nobel Prize in Literature

1987

Norroy king-at-arms

1755

O. Henry Award

1929

Officer of the British Empire

1972

Officer of the Order of Canada

1995

Officer, Order of Canada

1998

Ohio Award for Educational Broadcasting

1958

Ontario Trillium Engl. Lang. Book Award for Poetry

2010

Orange Prize

1998

Order of Canada

2004

Order of Manitoba

2001

Order of Merit

1935

1929

1905

Oriel fellowship

1842

Outstanding Achievement Award, Univ. of Minnesota

1951

Oxford chancellor's prize

1851

Pat Lowther Award ('Body Rain' shortlisted)

Patterson Poetry Prize

1999

Person of National Historic Significance

1945

1920

PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry

2005

Plaque, Church House Inn, Newport, Wales

1938

Plunket Medal for best speech

1913

Poet Laureate

1972

1913

1843

1670

1638

Poet Laureate of Oregon 1923-31

Poet Laureate of the United States

1991

Poet Laureate, England

1692

Poet-laureate-ship

1813

Poet-laureateship

1850

Poetry NOW: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bards

2011

Poetry Society of America Prize

1918

Poetry's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing

2009

Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize

2007

Polignac Prize for Poetry, Royal Society of Litera

1912

Portia White Prize

1998

President of the Society of Authors

1892

President's Medal, University of Toronto

1967

President, Poetry Society of America, 1925-26

0

President, Psychical Research Society

1911

President, Royal Astronomical Society

1827

Prix de Lire

1998

Prize for Latin declamation, Trinity

0

Prussian Order of Merit

1874

Pulitzer Prize

1995

1974

1955

1947

1928

1925

1923

1922

0

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

1999

1956

Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal

2002

Queen Elizabeth II Gold Medal for Poetry

1988

Queen's Gold Meadal for Poetry

1960

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

1969

Queen's Medal for Poetry

1957

Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize

2001

ReLit Award for Poetry

2011

2003

ReLit Prize for Poetry (Finalist)

2011

Returning the Gift Lifetime Achievement Award

1993

Rhodes Scholar

0

Robert Frost medal

1990

Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award (Finalist)

2013

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1989

Rockefeller Fellowship, 1945-47

0

Rockefeller Foundation fellowship

1982

Royal Chaplain

0

Royal Society of Canada

2004

Royal Society of Literature

0

Royal Society of Literature Prize

1821

Royal Society of Literature, Fellow

1966

Rugby prize

1840

Seatonian prize - poem

1830

Second Prince Consort's prize, French and Italian

1852

Service order for daring feat

1914

Shelley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America

1984

Short list, Governor-General's Award for Poetry

2011

Silver Jubilee Medal

1977

Sir William Browne medal for epigrams

1824

1822

Sir William Browne medal for Greek ode

1823

1822

Soci&#233;ti&#233; Gens de Lettres

0

Songwriters Hall of Fame

1970

St. Lucia Cross

1993

Statue in New York's Central Park (1877).

0

Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award

1991

Sydney Morning Herald contest

1879

Taylorian scholarship for French and Italian

1858

Tel Aviv Foundation Prize

1990

The Audre Lorde Poetry Award

2010

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 1998

0

The Griffin Prize

2009

The Journey Prize (Finalist)

2006

The Nobel Prize in Literature

1995

The Order of the Rio Branco (Brazil)

1969

The Wynne Francis Award. Concordia University

2002

This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt

2005

Trillium Book Award for Poetry

2009

Trillium Book Award for Poetry (Finalist)

2011

Trillium Poetry Award (Finalist)

2011

Trinity scholarship

1818

U. S. Poet Laureate

1990

UBC Medal for Biography

1995

University Gold Medal in logic & mental philosophy

0

University of Michigan, honorary degree

1955

University of Winnipeg Undergraduate Research Awar

1998

University of Winnipeg Writer's Circle Prize

1999

Vice-president of London Library

1902

Villa Waldberta Scholarship, Munich

1998

Visiting Writer, University of Texas at Austin

1999

Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University

2007

Wallace Stevens Award

2004

Walrus Poetry Prize (Finalist)

2012

Western Magazine Award for Travelogue

1997

White House Salute to Poetry and American Poets

1980

William Carlos Williams Prize, Poetry Society of A

1986

William Foyle Prize

1961

Wilson MacDonald Memorial School Museum

0

Women's Canadian Club

1943

Wyfold Cup, Henley (rowing)

1909

“Discovery”/The Nation Prize

2004

“Voronezh”: Grain Magazine’s prose poetry competition

2003