- 1966 Eric Gregory Award[121]
- 1967 Cholmondeley Award[122]
- 1968 Somerset Maugham Award
- 1968 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize[123]
- 1975 E. M. Forster Award[124]
- 1975 Duff Cooper Prize for North[125]
- 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature[1]
- 1996 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[1]
- 1997 Elected Saoi of Aosdána[126]
- 1998 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates[127][128]
- 2000 Elected to the American Philosophical Society[129]
- 2001 Golden Wreath of Poetry, given by Struga Poetry Evenings for life achievement in the field of poetry[130]
- 2004 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement[131]
- 2005 Irish PEN Award[132]
- 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize for District and Circle[1]
- 2007 Poetry Now Award for District and Circle[133][134]
- 2009 David Cohen Prize[1]
- 2011 Poetry Now Award for Human Chain[133]
- 2011 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award[135]
- 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize, Lifetime Recognition Award[136]
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