| A | B |
|---|
| Selected Poems (1939) | John Gould Fletcher |
| Collected Poems (1940) | Mark Van Doren |
| Sunderland Capture (1941) | Leonard Bacon |
| The Dust Which Is God (1942) | William Rose Benét |
| A Witness Tree (1943) | Robert Frost |
| Western Star (1944) | Stephen Vincent Benét |
| V-Letter and Other Poems (1945) | Karl Shapiro |
| Lord Weary's Castle (1947) | Robert Lowell |
| The Age of Anxiety (1948) | W. H. Auden |
| Terror and Decorum (1949) | Peter Viereck |
| Annie Allen (1950) | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Complete Poems (1951) | Carl Sandburg |
| Collected Poems (1952) | Marianne Moore |
| Collected Poems 1917-1952 (1953) | Archibald MacLeish |
| The Waking (1954) | Theodore Roethke |
| Collected Poems (1955) | Wallace Stevens |
| Poems—North & South (1956) | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Things of This World (1957) | Richard Wilbur |
| Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1958) | Robert Penn Warren |
| Selected Poems 1928-1958 (1959) | Stanley Kunitz |
