Alan Dugan (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Alan Dugan’s literary accomplishments have centered on the medium of poetry.
Achievements
Alan Dugan had been publishing poems in literary magazines for a number of years—winning an award from Poetry as early as 1947—before his first book of poetry was published in 1961. That book, Poems, enjoyed one of the greatest critical successes of any first volume of poems in the twentieth century. Dudley Fitts awarded it the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award; it also won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Poet...
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