For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren (Holt)
The Jury
The Jury
Winners in Poetry
1940 Prize Winners
Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times
For his dispatches from Berlin.
Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun
For "The Outstretched Hand."