A report on Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

Frequently honored during his lifetime, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

Robert Frost won the prize four times and several others won it more than once (below).

Key West's influence on Stevens's poetry is evident in many of the poems published in his first two collections, Harmonium and Ideas of Order. In February 1935, Stevens encountered the poet Robert Frost at the Casa Marina.

1955: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

The poet and critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. Frost's virtues are extraordinary. No other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mastery, the rhythms of actual speech".