Lata czterdzieste: mały|Carl Sandburg Data Autor Tytuł 1941 Sunderland Capture and Other Poems 1942 William Rose Benét The Dust Which Is God 1943 Robert Frost A Witness Tree 1944 Stephen Vincent Benét Western Star 1945 Karl Shapiro V-Letter and Other Poems 1946 nagrody nie przyznano 1947 Robert Lowell Lord Weary’s Castle 1948 W.H. Auden The Age of Anxiety 1949 Peter Viereck Terror and Decorum 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen
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Data Autor Tytuł 1951 Carl Sandburg Complete Poems 1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems 1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems 1917–1952 1954 Theodore Roethke The Waking 1955 Wallace Stevens Collected Poems 1956 Elizabeth Bishop Poems: North & South – A Cold Spring 1957 Richard Wilbur Things of This World 1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems 1954–1956 1959 Stanley Kunitz Selected Poems 1928–1958 1960 Heart's Needle
Lata sześćdziesiąte: mały|Sylvia Plath Data Autor Tytuł 1961 Phyllis McGinley Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades 1962 Poems 1963 William Carlos Williams Pictures from Brueghel 1964 Louis Simpson At The End Of The Open Road 1965 John Berryman 77 Dream Songs 1966 Richard Eberhart Selected Poems 1967 Anne Sexton Live or Die 1968 The Hard Hours 1969 Of Being Numerous 1970 Untitled Subjects
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