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The 1977 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry
For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

Divine Comedies , by James Merrill (Atheneum )

The Jury

Louis Simpson(Chair)*

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University

Richard Howard*

Poet

Helen Vendler

Professor of English, Boston University

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