| Timeline |
| 1894 |
Born 14 October in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1915 |
Received his B.A. from Harvard |
| 1916 |
Received his M.A. from Harvard |
| 1917 |
Volunteers to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France |
| 1922 |
The Enormous Room published |
| 1923 |
Tulips and Chimneys published |
| 1924 |
Marries Elaine Orr, they are divorced within the year |
| 1924 |
Returns to New York |
| 1925 |
& published |
| 1925 |
XLI Poems published |
| 1929 |
Marries Anne Barton |
| 1931 |
CIOPW, a collection of drawings and paintings, published |
| 1931 |
ViVa published |
| 1931 |
VV published |
| 1931 |
Travels Russia for six weeks |
| 1932 |
Divorces Anne Barton |
| 1933 |
Eimi published |
| 1934 |
Takes up residence with Marion Morehouse, she remains his common-law wife until his death |
| 1935 |
No Thanks published |
| 1935 |
Tom published |
| 1936 |
1/20 published |
| 1941 |
Fifty Poems published |
| 1944 |
1 x 1 published |
| 1950 |
Xaipe published |
| 1951 |
Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship |
| 1952 |
Holds Charles Eliot Norton lectureship at Harvard |
| 1955 |
Awarded a special citation from the National Book Award Committee |
| 1957 |
Appointed the festival poet for the Boston Arts Festival |
| 1958 |
95 Poems published |
| 1958 |
Wins Bollingen Prize |
| 1959 |
Wins two-year grant of $15,000 from the Ford Foundation |
| 1962 |
Adventures in Value published |
| 1962 |
Dies 3 September in Conway, NH |
