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Ruth Pitter (alternatively Emma Thomas Pitter), CBE, FRSL (7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992) was a British poet.

She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature. In 1974, she was named a "Companion of Literature", the highest honour given by the Royal Society of Literature.[1]

  1. ^ "Companions of Literature". Royal Society of Literature.

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Oxford religious poetry anthologies

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Heinemann Award

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Hawthornden Prize

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1935 Robert Graves I, Claudius 1936 Evelyn Waugh Edmund Campion 1937 Ruth Pitter A Trophy of Arms 1938 David Jones In Parenthesis 1939 Christopher Hassall...

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