| Timeline |
| 1879 |
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, 2 October |
| 1897 |
Enters Harvard |
| 1900 |
Finishes at Harvard |
| 1901 |
Attends New York Law School |
| 1903 |
Graduates from New York Law School |
| 1904 |
Admitted to the U.S. Bar |
| 1909 |
Marries Elsie Kachel |
| 1914 |
Four poems published in a special wartime issue of Poetry |
| 1916 |
Joins Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company |
| 1923 |
Harmonium published |
| 1934 |
Vice president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. |
| 1935 |
Ideas of Order published |
| 1937 |
The Man With the Blue Guitar published |
| 1942 |
Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction published |
| 1945 |
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1950 |
Wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry |
| 1951 |
The Necessary Angel published |
| 1954 |
Collected Poems published |
| 1955 |
Dies 2 August in Hartford |
| 1955 |
Wins National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for Collected Poems) |
