Houghton Mifflin Company

EB 's Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring was published [a]fter much wrangling with Houghton Mifflin . Although not called a collected poems, the volume brought together new poems (not as many as the...

EB began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House , Viking , and Simon and Schuster . Harcourt Brace offered...

EB accumulated a remarkable roster of awards and prizes, from Houghton Mifflin 's first annual $1,000 Poetry Prize in 1944, through her $2,500 Guggenheim in April 1947 and a travel grant for $7,000 from the...