| Timeline |
| 1920 |
Born in 1 March, in New York City |
| 1941 |
Graduated from Harvard |
| 1947 |
The Image and the Law published |
| 1949 |
The Melodramatists published |
| 1957 |
Homecoming Game published |
| 1960 |
A Commodity of Dreams published |
| 1964 |
The Next Room of the Dream published |
| 1969 |
Associated with Washington Univ. in St. Louis until his death |
| 1972 |
Reflections on Poetry and Poetics published |
| 1977 |
Collected Poems published |
| 1977 |
Inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1978 |
Collected Poems wins both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award |
| 1978 |
Figures of Thought published |
| 1979 |
By Al Lebowitz's Pool published |
| 1980 |
Sentences published |
| 1981 |
Receives the Bollingen Prize |
| 1984 |
Inside the Onion published |
| 1987 |
War Stories published |
| 1987 |
Awarded the National Medal of the Arts |
| 1988 |
Named the nation's third poet laureate |
| 1991 |
Dies |
