During his lifetime, Cummings received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including:
- Dial Award (1925)[9]
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1933)[68]
- Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry (1945)[69]
- Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine (1950)[70]
- Fellowship of American Academy of Poets (1950)[28]
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1951)[68]
- Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard (1952–1953)[28]
- Special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his Poems, 1923–1954 (1957)
- Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1958)[28]
- Boston Arts Festival Award (1957)
- Two-year Ford Foundation grant of $15,000 (1959)[28]
