Career
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Society of Fellows, junior fellow, 1947-50, assistant professor of English, 1950-54; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, associate professor of English, 1955-57; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, professor of English, 1957-77; Smith College, Northampton, MA, writer-in-residence, 1977-86; Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Poet Laureate of the United States, 1987-88. Lecturer at colleges, universities, and Library of Congress. U.S. State Department cultural exchange representative to the USSR, 1961.
