End of appointment as Consultant in Poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, the
position today known as the USA
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
End of marriage to Jean Stafford.
1949
Married writer Elizabeth Hardwick.
1950
Included in Mid-Century American Poets anthology,
with
Elizabeth Bishop,
Randall Jarrell,
Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Roethke,
and John Ciardi.
1951
Poetry: The Mills of The Kavanaughs, 3rd book.
1959
Poetry: Life Studies, 4th book.
1961
Phaedra (translation).
Imitations.
1962
Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize
for translations (or approximations) of poems by classical and modern European poets: Rilke, Montale,
Baudelaire, Pasternak, Rimbaud, and others.
1964
Poetry: For the Union Dead, 5th book.
1965
The Old Glory.
1967
Poetry: Near the Ocean.
1969
The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire
Prometheus Bound.
Notebook (selections from two years of
an experimental verse journal).
1970
Notebook (Revised and Expanded Edition).
Left his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, for Lady Caroline Blackwood, a British author.