Robert Lowell
Many readers and critics thought Lowell was "the most important poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century." In 1947 and 1948, he was the sixth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He won the National Book Award in 1960 (''Life Studies''), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 (''Lord Weary's Castle'') and 1974 (''The Dolphin''), the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 (''Day by Day''), and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1947.