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

1997

  • Hamilton, Jane Eaton (1954 - )

A. J. M. Smith Poetry Award

1973

  • MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941 - 1987)

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

2010

  • Hall, Kate (1977 - )

2009

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

2006

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

Académie française

1925

  • Valéry, Paul (1871 - 1945)

1894

  • de Heredia, José-Maria (1842 - 1905)

1886

  • de Lisle, Leconte (1818 - 1894)

1845

  • de Vigny, Alfred (1797 - 1863)

1829

  • de Lamartine, Alphonse (1790 - 1869)

Affiliated with the League of Canadian Poets

0

  • Reibetanz, John (1944 - )

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

1981

  • Stafford, William (1914 - 1993)

American Academy of Arts and Letters

1904

  • Hay, John Milton (1838 - 1905)
  • Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833 - 1908)

0

  • Van Dyke, Henry (1852 - 1933)

American Academy of Arts and Letters member

1908

  • Moody, William Vaughn (1869 - 1910)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1797

  • Adams, John Quincy (1767 - 1848)

American Member, Academy of Arts and Letters

1911

  • Riley, James Whitcomb (1849 - 1916)

American National Academy of Arts

1882

  • Linton, William James (1812 - 1897)

Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship

2006

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

Arc Poetry Magazine: Critic's Desk Award

2012

  • Neilson, Shane (1975 - )

Arc Poetry Magazine: Poem of the Year

2013

  • Neilson, Shane (1975 - )

2010

  • Neilson, Shane (1975 - )

Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry

1991

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

Arthur C. Clarke award

1992

  • Piercy, Marge (1936 - )

Arthur Ellis Award

1988

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Arts Alumni Award, Univ. of Waterloo

1999

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

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

1991

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

B.D., Dublin University

1712

  • Parnell, Thomas (1679 - 1718)

B.D., Oxford

1768

  • Warton, Joseph (1722 - 1800)

Balliol scholarship

1850

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Balliol scholarship, Oxford

1837

  • Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819 - 1861)

BBC Peter Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Play

2005

  • Warburton, N. J. (1947 - )

BBC/Radio Times Drama Award

1985

  • Warburton, N. J. (1947 - )

Bell Scholorship

1829

  • Turner, Charles (Tennyson) (1808 - 1879)

Berkeley gold medal

1874

  • Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854 - 1900)

Bliss Carman Poetry Award

2001

  • Christakos, Margaret (1962 - )

Blues Hall of Fame

1980

  • Smith, Bessie (1894 - 1937)

Bollingen Award

1953

  • Williams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963)

Bollingen Prize

0

  • Aiken, Conrad (1889 - 1973)
  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)

bpNichol Chapbook Award

1989

  • Dutton, Paul (1943 - )

bpNichol chapbook award: Inverting the Deer

2009

  • Barwin, Gary (1964 - )

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

2006

  • Dodds, Jeramy (1974 - )

2000

  • L'Abbé, Sonnet (1973 - )

Browne medal (Greek ode)

1855

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Browne medal for Greek ode

1792

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834)

C.B.

1879

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

C.I.E.

1892

  • Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1848 - 1909)

Caius members' prize for Latin Essay

1792

  • Frere, J. H. (1769 - 1846)

Camden medal

1855

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

1853

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Canada Council Medal, 1968

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Canada Research Chair

2001

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Canadian Author's Association Prize for Nonfiction

1995

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Canadian Authors Association Award

1976

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry

2001

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

Canadian National Magazine Award

1985

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Canonized as an English martyr

1970

  • Southwell, SJ, Robert (1561 - 1595)

Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize

1990

  • Piercy, Marge (1936 - )

1986

  • Piercy, Marge (1936 - )

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

2010

  • Fiorentino, Jon Paul (1975 - )

CBC Literary Award in poetry

2007

  • Dodds, Jeramy (1974 - )

CBE

1951

  • Sassoon, Siegfried (1886 - 1967)

Centennial Medal

1967

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

Chancellor's medal

1843

  • Cory, William Johnson (1823 - 1892)

Chancellor's medal for English poem

1824

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

1823

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

Chancellor's medal for English verse

1829

  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809 - 1892)

Chancellor's prize for Latin verse

1789

  • Canning, George (1770 - 1827)

Chancellor's prize for Latin verse, Oxford

1783

  • Bowles, William Lisle (1762 - 1850)

Chancellor, University of Winnipeg

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Chancellorship of the order of the Garter

1596

  • Dyer, Sir Edward (1543 - 1607)

Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction

2002

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor

0

  • Binyon, Heward Laurence (1869 - 1943)

Cholmondeley Poetry Award

1966

  • Smith, Stevie (1902 - 1971)

City of Toronto Book Award

1979

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

City of Toronto Book Prize

1995

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Co-founder, Poetry Society of America, 1910

0

  • Guiterman, Arthur (1871 - 1943)

College declamation prize

1823

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

College Prize for essay on William III

1822

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859)

Columbia University Poetry Society Prize

1918

  • Teasdale, Sara (1884 - 1933)

Commander, Order of the British Empire

1960

  • Betjeman, John (1906 - 1984)

Commander, Royal Victorian Order

0

  • Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862 - 1925)

Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres

1996

  • Heaney, Seamus Justin (1939 - )

Companion of Honour

1922

  • Newbolt, Henry John (1862 - 1938)

Companion of the Bath

1895

  • Garnett, Richard (1835 - 1906)

Companion of the Order of Australia

1981

  • Hope, A. D. (1907 - 2000)

Companion of the Order of the British Empire

0

  • Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874 - 1942)

Companion, Order of Canada

2002

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress

0

  • Aiken, Conrad (1889 - 1973)

Consultant of Poetry at Library of Congress

1952

  • Williams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963)

Copley Foundation Award for painting

1959

  • Loy, Mina (1882 - 1966)

Copley Medal

1888

  • Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)

1821

  • Herschel, John Frederick William (1792 - 1871)

Craven scholarship

1854

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

1844

  • Cory, William Johnson (1823 - 1892)

1821

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859)

Croix de Guerre (War Cross) by the French Republic

1919

  • Kilmer, Joyce (1886 - 1918)

Crystal Palace prize for centenary poem on Burns

1858

  • Knox, Isa Craig (1831 - 1903)

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

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

D.C.L., Oxford

1855

  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809 - 1892)

1820

  • Southey, Robert (1774 - 1843)

D.C.L., Oxford University

1889

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

D.D. , University of New Jersey

1792

  • Newton, John (1725 - 1807)

D.D., Dublin University

1712

  • Parnell, Thomas (1679 - 1718)

D.D., University of Edinburgh

1728

  • Watts, Isaac (1674 - 1748)

D.D.,Oxford

1768

  • Warton, Joseph (1722 - 1800)

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

2011

  • Williams, Ian (1979 - )

Darwin Medal

1894

  • Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)

David McKeen Award

0

  • Hall, Kate (1977 - )

Dayne Ogilvie Prize (Honour of Distinction)

2011

  • Couture, Dani (1978 - )

declared Venable by Pope John Paul II

1991

  • Newman, Cardinal, John Henry (1801 - 1890)

Distinguished Service to Lit., Sat. Review

1940

  • Adams, Franklin Pierce (1881 - 1960)

Doctor Litteris, University of Wales

1926

  • Davies, William Henry (1871 - 1940)

Doctorate of Letters, Trent University, 1978

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Doctorate of Literature, University of New Brunswi

1930

  • Roberts, Theodore Goodridge (1877 - 1953)

Doctorate, Oxford

1904

  • Lang, Andrew (1844 - 1912)

Doctorate, St. Andrews

1885

  • Lang, Andrew (1844 - 1912)

Dominion of canada Centennial Medal, 1967

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Dora Mavor Moore Award

2007

  • Dutton, Paul (1943 - )

E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry

1966

  • Clifford, Wayne (1944 - )

Edgar Allan Poe award, Academy of American Poets

1974

  • Strand, Mark (1934 - )

Elected fellow of London Society of Antiquaries

1771

  • Warton the younger, Thomas (1728 - 1790)

Elected member of Literary Club

1776

  • Warton, Joseph (1722 - 1800)

Elected member of the Literary Club

1782

  • Warton the younger, Thomas (1728 - 1790)

English prize-poem

1821

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859)

1819

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859)

Expozine Alternative Press Award

2006

  • Fiorentino, Jon Paul (1975 - )

F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry

2006

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

Fellow of Christ's College

1858

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts

1923

  • Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874 - 1942)

Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts

0

  • Rankine, William J. Macquorn (1820 - 1872)

Fellow of the Royal Society

1851

  • Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)

1813

  • Herschel, John Frederick William (1792 - 1871)

1663

  • Sprat, Thomas (1635 - 1713)

0

  • Binyon, Heward Laurence (1869 - 1943)
  • Pope, Walter (1628 - 1714)
  • White, Gilbert (1720 - 1793)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

1962

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

1947

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

1934

  • Roberts, Theodore Goodridge (1877 - 1953)

1929

  • Buller, A. H. Reginald (1874 - 1944)

1893

  • Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)

1882

  • MacColl, Evan (1808 - 1898)

0

  • Weir, Robert Stanley (1856 - 1926)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1850

  • Rankine, William J. Macquorn (1820 - 1872)

Fellow of the Royal Society of London

1853

  • Rankine, William J. Macquorn (1820 - 1872)

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

1872

  • Brooks, Shirley (1816 - 1874)

Fellow, Royal Geographical Society

0

  • Brooke, Gilbert E. (1873 - 1936)

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

1900

  • Scott, Frederick George (1861 - 1944)

1895

  • Lampman, Archibald (1861 - 1899)

Fellow, Royal Society of Literature

1903

  • Garnett, Richard (1835 - 1906)

Fellowship

1981

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

Fellowship at King's College

1912

  • Brooke, Rupert (1887 - 1915)

Fellowship at Oriel

1845

  • Arnold, Matthew (1822 - 1888)

Fellowship at Queen's College, Oxford

1698

  • Addison, Joseph (1672 - 1719)

Fellowship, Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation

1998

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

Fellowship, Gugenheim Foundation

1990

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation

1982

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress

1999

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford

1854

  • Brown, Thomas Edward (1830 - 1897)

Fellowships (6), Canada Council

0

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

Finalist for National Magazine Awards

1995

  • Reibetanz, John (1944 - )

First class in classical moderations

1865

  • Myers, Ernest (1844 - 1921)

First Governor-General's award for fiction

0

  • Brooker, Bertram Richard (1888 - 1955)

First president of the Liverpool Royal Institution

1817

  • Roscoe, William (1753 - 1831)

First prize, French and Italian

1853

  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837 - 1909)

First Prize, Petra Kenney Poetry Competition

2003

  • Reibetanz, John (1944 - )

First Prize, Poetry, Writers Fed. of Nova Scotia

1981

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

First Victoria University Teaching Award

1989

  • Reibetanz, John (1944 - )

Flavelle Medal

1929

  • Buller, A. H. Reginald (1874 - 1944)

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

1936

  • Brooker, Bertram Richard (1888 - 1955)

Foundation scholar

1793

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834)

Friggin Prize

2009

  • Boughn, Michael (1946 - )

Frost Medal

1943

  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892 - 1950)

G.C.I.E.

1896

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

Gaisford prize for Greek verse

1865

  • Myers, Ernest (1844 - 1921)

Gerald Lampert Award (Finalist)

1997

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry

1986

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Finalist)

2013

  • Matuk, Nyla (1967 - )

2009

  • Murakami, Sachiko (1980 - )

2006

  • Rader, Matt (1978 - )

Gilford lecturer, St. Andrews

1888

  • Lang, Andrew (1844 - 1912)

Gold Medal Award, American Acad. of Arts & Letters

1960

  • H.D., (1886 - 1961)

Gold Medal for Poetry from the National Institute

0

  • Aiken, Conrad (1889 - 1973)
  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)

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

0

  • Williams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963)

Gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature

1905

  • Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

Gold medal, commemoration of the Synod of Dort

1619

  • Donne, John (1572 - 1631)

Governor General's Award

1993

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Governor General's Award for non-fiction

1977

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

Governor General's Award for Nonfiction

1991

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Governor General's Award for Poetry

2001

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

1981

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

1969

  • MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941 - 1987)

1958

  • Macpherson, Jay (1931 - 2012)

1951

  • Bruce, Charles (1906 - 1971)

1941

  • Marriott, Anne (1913 - 1997)

Governor General's Award for poetry 1944

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Governor General's Award, Poetry

1964

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

Governor General's Literary Award (Finalist)

2008

  • Murakami, Sachiko (1980 - )

Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction

1995

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry

1987

  • MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941 - 1987)

Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry 2009

0

  • Zieroth, David Dale (1946 - )

Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry (Finalist)

2009

  • Starnino, Carmine (1970 - )

Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry 2010

0

  • Greene, Richard (1961 - )

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

1989

  • Smith, Bessie (1894 - 1937)

Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur

  • de Régnier, Henri (1864 - 1936)

Griffin Poetry Prize (Finalist)

2013

  • Williams, Ian (1979 - )

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

2002

  • Bök, Christian (1966 - )

Guggenheim Fellowship

1999

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

1992

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

1975

  • Strand, Mark (1934 - )

1962

  • Levertov, Denise (1923 - 1997)

1947

  • Lowell, Robert (1917 - 1977)

1935

  • Hughes, Langston (1902 - 1967)

Guggenheim Fellowship,1941-42

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Guggenheim Foundation fellowship

1984

  • Ostriker, Alicia (1937 - )

Guggenheim Foundation grant

1966

  • Stafford, William (1914 - 1993)

Gwendolyn MacEwen Park, Toronto

1994

  • MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941 - 1987)

Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award

1999

  • Bramer, Shannon (1973 - )

Hanseatic Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg University

1938

  • Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)

Harness prize

0

  • Brooke, Rupert (1887 - 1915)

Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, 1941

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Harriet Monroe Prize

1956

  • H.D., (1886 - 1961)

Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award

2007

  • Aaron, Rafi (1959 - )

Helen Haire Levinson Prize

1920

  • Stevens, Wallace (1879 - 1955)

Helen Haire Levinson Prize from Poetry

1933

  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)

Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University

2012

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

Hon. fellow of Balliol College

1868

  • Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)

Hon. LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh

1884

  • Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)

Hon. M.A. of Oxford

1868

  • Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)

Hon. president of 5 Assoc. Societies of Edinburgh

1885

  • Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)

Honorary Associate, Royal Society of Literature

1824

  • Roscoe, William (1753 - 1831)

Honorary burgess of Dumfries

0

  • Burns, Robert (1759 - 1796)

Honorary D.C.L.

1838

  • Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850)

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

1905

  • Drummond, William Henry (1854 - 1907)

Honorary degree, Cambridge

1820

  • Scott, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)

Honorary degree, Oxford

1820

  • Scott, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)

Honorary doctor of laws, Oxford

1773

  • Beattie, James (1735 - 1803)

Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law, Oxford

1775

  • Johnson, Samuel (1709 - 1784)

Honorary Doctorate, Carleton University

2000

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Concordia University

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Hanover College

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Lakehead University

2001

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Malaspina University and Colle

2003

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Queen's University

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of British Columbia

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Calgary

2001

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Manitoba

2003

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Ottawa

1995

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Toronto

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Victoria

2001

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Western Ontario

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Winnipeg

1996

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary Doctorate, Wilfrid Laurier University

2000

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

1869

  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809 - 1892)

Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

1877

  • Newman, Cardinal, John Henry (1801 - 1890)

Honorary LL.D., Toronto

1902

  • Drummond, William Henry (1854 - 1907)

Honorary M.A.

1668

  • Dryden, John (1631 - 1700)

Honorary M.A., Oxford

1755

  • Johnson, Samuel (1709 - 1784)

Honorary MA, Yale University

1891

  • Linton, William James (1812 - 1897)

Honorary Organist of the Chapel Royal

0

  • Byrd, William (1543 - 1623)

Inaugural Poet Laureate of Barrie (Ontario)

2010

  • Meyer, Bruce (1957 - )

Irving Layton Award

0

  • Hall, Kate (1977 - )

Jamaican Institute of Arts & Sciences, gold medal

1912

  • McKay, Claude (1889 - 1948)

James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship

0

  • Brennan, Christopher John (1870 - 1932)

James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Award

1937

  • McKay, Claude (1889 - 1948)

Jessie Mackay Memorial Award

0

  • Gilbert, Ruth (1917 - )

Joan Nordell Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University

2011

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

Joseph Rodman Drake Park, Hunts Point, Bronx.

0

  • Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795 - 1820)

Judge, Griffin Prize

2001

  • Forché, Carolyn (1950 - )

Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize, Poetry Society

1921

  • Wylie, Elinor (1885 - 1928)

K.C.B.

1881

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

K.C.I.E.

1887

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

K.M. Hunter Artist Award for literature

2006

  • Tierney, Matthew (1970 - )

K.M. Hunter Foundation Artist Award

0

  • Barwin, Gary (1964 - )

Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1854

  • Rankine, William J. Macquorn (1820 - 1872)

Killam Fellowship

1996

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

King's fellowship

1845

  • Cory, William Johnson (1823 - 1892)

King's scholarship, Eton

1831

  • Cory, William Johnson (1823 - 1892)

Knight Commander of the British Empire

1969

  • Betjeman, John (1906 - 1984)

Knight Commander with Star, Order of St. Gregory

1934

  • Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874 - 1936)

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

1935

  • Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)

Knight of the Bath

1533

  • Vaux, Thomas Lord (1509 - 1556)

Knighthood

1643

  • Davenant, Sir William (1606 - 1668)

1596

  • Dyer, Sir Edward (1543 - 1607)

1567

  • Sackville, earl of Dorset, Thomas (1536 - 1608)

0

  • Etherege, Sir George (1635 - 1691)

Koerner Foundation scholarship

1956

  • Marriott, Anne (1913 - 1997)

L.H.D., Columbia University

0

  • Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833 - 1908)

Lamont Poetry Selection

1978

  • Ai, (1947 - 2010)

Lamont Poetry Selection Award

1981

  • Forché, Carolyn (1950 - )

Laureate, Jacobite 'Easy Club'

1715

  • Ramsay, Allan (1686 - 1758)

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

1997

  • Hamilton, Jane Eaton (1954 - )

Légion d'honneur

1845

  • de Musset, Alfred (1810 - 1857)

Legion of Honor, France

1919

  • Van Dyke, Henry (1852 - 1933)

Levinson Prize

1958

  • Macpherson, Jay (1931 - 2012)

Lieutenant Governor of Acoma Pueblo, NM

0

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writer's Circle

1993

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

Lionel Shapiro Prize for Creative Writing

1990

  • Matuk, Nyla (1967 - )

Literary Achievement New Mexico Humainites Council

1989

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

LL.D., Cambridge University

1891

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

LL.D., Yale University

0

  • Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833 - 1908)

LLD (Honorary), Queen's University, 1966

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Lord President of Wales

1660

  • Butler, Samuel (1613 - 1680)

Lord rector, Glasgow University

1826

  • Campbell, Thomas (1777 - 1844)

Lorne Pierce Medal

2008

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

1926

  • Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)

Lorne Pierce Medal 1966

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Lorne Pierce Medal, Royal Society of Canada

0

  • Leacock, Stephen (1869 - 1944)

M.A., Cambridge

1571

  • Sackville, earl of Dorset, Thomas (1536 - 1608)

0

  • Prior, Matthew (1664 - 1721)

M.A., Oxford

1759

  • Warton, Joseph (1722 - 1800)

1610

  • Donne, John (1572 - 1631)

1592

  • Sackville, earl of Dorset, Thomas (1536 - 1608)

M.C. (Military Cross)

0

  • Studdert Kennedy, Geoffrey Anketell (1883 - 1929)

Maisonneuve magazine's literary competition

2006

  • Tierney, Matthew (1970 - )

Malahat Review Long Poem Prize

1999

  • L'Abbé, Sonnet (1973 - )

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

  • Hamilton, Jane Eaton (1954 - )

Marian Engel Award

1990

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Mark Twain Medal

0

  • Leacock, Stephen (1869 - 1944)

Master of Arts, Harvard

1720

  • Taylor, Edward (1642 - 1729)

May Sarton Award

1991

  • Piercy, Marge (1936 - )

Melbourne contest for best Australian poem

1868

  • Kendall, Thomas Henry (1839 - 1882)

Member Literary and Artistic Institute of France

1935

  • Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874 - 1942)

Member of Royal Society

1662

  • Dryden, John (1631 - 1700)

Member's prize (Latin essay)

1856

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Member, British Academy

1902

  • Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835 - 1911)

Member, Canada Council

1994

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters

0

  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)

Member, the National Academy of Arts and Letters

1927

  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869 - 1935)

Military Cross

1915

  • Hodgson, William Noel (1893 - 1916)

Molson Prize

1967

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

National Book Award

0

  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)

National Book Award for poetry

1963

  • Stafford, William (1914 - 1993)

National Book Award, Poetry

1999

  • Ai, (1947 - 2010)

National Book Critics Circle Award

2003

  • Forché, Carolyn (1950 - )

1995

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

National Book League prize

1964

  • Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)

National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Award

1969

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

National Historic Person (Government of Canada)

2003

  • Adams, Mary Electa (1823 - 1898)

National Institute of Arts and Letters

1950

  • Williams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963)

1898

  • Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)

National Magazine Award in Poetry (Silver)

2012

  • Neilson, Shane (1975 - )

National Magazine Award of Poetry

2002

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

National Magazine Brascan Silver Medal for Culture

1986

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

National Medal for Literature

0

  • Aiken, Conrad (1889 - 1973)

National Medal for Literature, National Academy an

1977

  • Lowell, Robert (1917 - 1977)

Newcastle scholarship, Eton

1841

  • Cory, William Johnson (1823 - 1892)

Newdigate prize

1878

  • Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854 - 1900)

1843

  • Arnold, Matthew (1822 - 1888)

Newdigate Prize at Oxford

1827

  • Hawker, Robert Stephen (1803 - 1875)

Nobel Prize for Literature

1992

  • Walcott, Derek (1930 - )

1961

  • Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899 - 1961)

1936

  • O'Neill, Eugene (1888 - 1953)

1923

  • Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)

1913

  • Tagore, Rabindranath (1861 - 1941)

1907

  • Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936)

Nobel Prize for Peace

1919

  • Wilson, Woodrow (1856 - 1924)

Nobel Prize in Literature

1987

  • Brodsky, Joseph (1940 - 1996)

Norroy king-at-arms

1755

  • Oldys, William (1696 - 1761)

O. Henry Award

1929

  • Parker, Dorothy (1893 - 1967)

Officer of the British Empire

1972

  • Hope, A. D. (1907 - 2000)

Officer of the Order of Canada

1995

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

Officer, Order of Canada

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Ohio Award for Educational Broadcasting

1958

  • Marriott, Anne (1913 - 1997)

Ontario Trillium Engl. Lang. Book Award for Poetry

2010

  • Tierney, Matthew (1970 - )

Orange Prize

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Order of Canada

2004

  • Colombo, John Robert (1936 - )

Order of Manitoba

2001

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Order of Merit

1935

  • Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)

1929

  • Bridges, Robert (1844 - 1930)

1905

  • Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

Oriel fellowship

1842

  • Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819 - 1861)

Outstanding Achievement Award, Univ. of Minnesota

1951

  • Beach, Joseph Warren (1880 - 1957)

Oxford chancellor's prize

1851

  • Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831 - 1884)

Pat Lowther Award ('Body Rain' shortlisted)

  • Hamilton, Jane Eaton (1954 - )

Patterson Poetry Prize

1999

  • Piercy, Marge (1936 - )

Person of National Historic Significance

1945

  • Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)

1920

  • Lampman, Archibald (1861 - 1899)

PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry

2005

  • Boughn, Michael (1946 - )

Plaque, Church House Inn, Newport, Wales

1938

  • Davies, William Henry (1871 - 1940)

Plunket Medal for best speech

1913

  • Nicholls, Marjory (1890 - 1930)

Poet Laureate

1972

  • Betjeman, John (1906 - 1984)

1913

  • Bridges, Robert (1844 - 1930)

1843

  • Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850)

1670

  • Dryden, John (1631 - 1700)

1638

  • Davenant, Sir William (1606 - 1668)

Poet Laureate of Oregon 1923-31

  • Markham, Edwin (1852 - 1940)

Poet Laureate of the United States

1991

  • Brodsky, Joseph (1940 - 1996)

Poet Laureate, England

1692

  • Tate, Nahum (1652 - 1715)

Poet-laureate-ship

1813

  • Southey, Robert (1774 - 1843)

Poet-laureateship

1850

  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809 - 1892)

Poetry NOW: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bards

2011

  • Barwin, Gary (1964 - )

Poetry Society of America Prize

1918

  • Teasdale, Sara (1884 - 1933)

Poetry's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing

2009

  • Guriel, Jason (1978 - )

Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize

2007

  • Guriel, Jason (1978 - )

Polignac Prize for Poetry, Royal Society of Litera

1912

  • Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)

Portia White Prize

1998

  • Clarke, George Elliott (1960 - )

President of the Society of Authors

1892

  • Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

President's Medal, University of Toronto

1967

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

President, Poetry Society of America, 1925-26

0

  • Guiterman, Arthur (1871 - 1943)

President, Psychical Research Society

1911

  • Lang, Andrew (1844 - 1912)

President, Royal Astronomical Society

1827

  • Herschel, John Frederick William (1792 - 1871)

Prix de Lire

1998

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Prize for Latin declamation, Trinity

0

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859)

Prussian Order of Merit

1874

  • Carlyle, Thomas (1795 - 1881)

Pulitzer Prize

1995

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

1974

  • Lowell, Robert (1917 - 1977)

1955

  • Stevens, Wallace (1879 - 1955)

1947

  • Lowell, Robert (1917 - 1977)

1928

  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869 - 1935)

1925

  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869 - 1935)

1923

  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892 - 1950)

1922

  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869 - 1935)

0

  • Aiken, Conrad (1889 - 1973)
  • Moore, Marianne (1887 - 1972)
  • Williams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963)

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

1999

  • Strand, Mark (1934 - )

1956

  • Bishop, Elizabeth (1911 - 1979)

Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal

2002

  • Shields, Carol (1935 - 2003)

Queen Elizabeth II Gold Medal for Poetry

1988

  • Walcott, Derek (1930 - )

Queen's Gold Meadal for Poetry

1960

  • Betjeman, John (1906 - 1984)

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

1969

  • Smith, Stevie (1902 - 1971)

Queen's Medal for Poetry

1957

  • Sassoon, Siegfried (1886 - 1967)

Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize

2001

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

ReLit Award for Poetry

2011

  • Couture, Dani (1978 - )

2003

  • Christakos, Margaret (1962 - )

ReLit Prize for Poetry (Finalist)

2011

  • Williams, Ian (1979 - )

Returning the Gift Lifetime Achievement Award

1993

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

Rhodes Scholar

0

  • Scott, Francis Reginald (1899 - 1985)

Robert Frost medal

1990

  • Levertov, Denise (1923 - 1997)

Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award (Finalist)

2013

  • Williams, Ian (1979 - )

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1989

  • Smith, Bessie (1894 - 1937)

Rockefeller Fellowship, 1945-47

0

  • Smith, Arthur James Marshall (1902 - 1980)

Rockefeller Foundation fellowship

1982

  • Ostriker, Alicia (1937 - )

Royal Chaplain

0

  • Corbett, Richard (1582 - 1635)

Royal Society of Canada

2004

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

Royal Society of Literature

0

  • Van Dyke, Henry (1852 - 1933)

Royal Society of Literature Prize

1821

  • Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793 - 1835)

Royal Society of Literature, Fellow

1966

  • Walcott, Derek (1930 - )

Rugby prize

1840

  • Arnold, Matthew (1822 - 1888)

Seatonian prize - poem

1830

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

Second Prince Consort's prize, French and Italian

1852

  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837 - 1909)

Service order for daring feat

1914

  • Grenfell, Julian (1888 - 1915)

Shelley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America

1984

  • Levertov, Denise (1923 - 1997)

Short list, Governor-General's Award for Poetry

2011

  • Boughn, Michael (1946 - )

Silver Jubilee Medal

1977

  • Souster, Raymond (1921 - 2012)

Sir William Browne medal for epigrams

1824

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

1822

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

Sir William Browne medal for Greek ode

1823

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

1822

  • Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802 - 1839)

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

0

  • Van Dyke, Henry (1852 - 1933)

Songwriters Hall of Fame

1970

  • Winner, Septimus (1827 - 1902)

St. Lucia Cross

1993

  • Walcott, Derek (1930 - )

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

0

  • Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790 - 1867)

Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award

1991

  • Brodsky, Joseph (1940 - 1996)

Sydney Morning Herald contest

1879

  • Kendall, Thomas Henry (1839 - 1882)

Taylorian scholarship for French and Italian

1858

  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837 - 1909)

Tel Aviv Foundation Prize

1990

  • Aaron, Rafi (1959 - )

The Audre Lorde Poetry Award

2010

  • Currin, Jen (1972 - )

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 1998

0

  • Zieroth, David Dale (1946 - )

The Griffin Prize

2009

  • Moritz, Albert Frank (1947 - )

The Journey Prize (Finalist)

2006

  • Rader, Matt (1978 - )

The Nobel Prize in Literature

1995

  • Heaney, Seamus Justin (1939 - )

The Order of the Rio Branco (Brazil)

1969

  • Bishop, Elizabeth (1911 - 1979)

The Wynne Francis Award. Concordia University

2002

  • Fiorentino, Jon Paul (1975 - )

This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt

2005

  • Tierney, Matthew (1970 - )

Trillium Book Award for Poetry

2009

  • Dodds, Jeramy (1974 - )

Trillium Book Award for Poetry (Finalist)

2011

  • Couture, Dani (1978 - )

Trillium Poetry Award (Finalist)

2011

  • Neilson, Shane (1975 - )

Trinity scholarship

1818

  • Newman, Cardinal, John Henry (1801 - 1890)

U. S. Poet Laureate

1990

  • Strand, Mark (1934 - )

UBC Medal for Biography

1995

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

University Gold Medal in logic & mental philosophy

0

  • Brennan, Christopher John (1870 - 1932)

University of Michigan, honorary degree

1955

  • Guest, Edgar Albert (1881 - 1959)

University of Winnipeg Undergraduate Research Awar

1998

  • Fiorentino, Jon Paul (1975 - )

University of Winnipeg Writer's Circle Prize

1999

  • Fiorentino, Jon Paul (1975 - )

Vice-president of London Library

1902

  • Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

Villa Waldberta Scholarship, Munich

1998

  • Dutton, Paul (1943 - )

Visiting Writer, University of Texas at Austin

1999

  • Meyer, Bruce (1957 - )

Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University

2007

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

Wallace Stevens Award

2004

  • Strand, Mark (1934 - )

Walrus Poetry Prize (Finalist)

2012

  • Matuk, Nyla (1967 - )

Western Magazine Award for Travelogue

1997

  • Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - )

White House Salute to Poetry and American Poets

1980

  • Ortiz, Simon Joseph (1941 - )

William Carlos Williams Prize, Poetry Society of A

1986

  • Ostriker, Alicia (1937 - )

William Foyle Prize

1961

  • Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)

Wilson MacDonald Memorial School Museum

0

  • MacDonald, Wilson Pugsley (1880 - 1967)

Women's Canadian Club

1943

  • Marriott, Anne (1913 - 1997)

Wyfold Cup, Henley (rowing)

1909

  • Grenfell, Julian (1888 - 1915)

“Discovery”/The Nation Prize

2004

  • Arthur, James (1974 - )

“Voronezh”: Grain Magazine’s prose poetry competition

2003

  • Aaron, Rafi (1959 - )
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