A. R. Ammons 1926-2001

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Birth 1926
Death 2001

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Poet and university professor Archie Randolph Ammons was born near Whiteville, N.C., in 1926. He earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading poets in the decades after he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1963, becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry a decade later. Recipient of the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award and Critics Circle Award for poetry, Ammons was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1981.

From the guide to the Archie Ammons papers, 1945-2010., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)

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