- Jeanette S Davis Prize and Levinson Prize, both from Poetry, 1942
- Contemporary Poetry Prize, 1943
- American Academy of Arts and Letters grant, 1944
- Guggenheim Fellowships, 1944, 1953
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1945
- Shelley Memorial Prize, 1946
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1946–1947
- Indiana University School of Letters Fellowship, 1956–1957
- Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, 1961
- Oscar Blumenthal Prize, Poetry, 1963
- Bollingen Prize, 1969
- Robert Kirsch Award, Los Angeles Times, 1989
- Charity Randall Citation, 1990
- Fellow in American Letters, Library of Congress
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