write about death, love and nature. He is known for his sonnets and for poems such as "Theme and Variations" (on his war experiences) and the light "Letter to Robert Frost." He became president of the Conservative Poetry Society of America. In this capacity, he attacked modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Awards and honors Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Collected Verse" in 1934. He was named to the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University in 1937. His papers are housed at Syracuse University. Works Poetry The Collected Poems (Alfred Knopf, 1961) The Relic & Other Poems (Knopf, 1957). The Suburb by the Sea: New Poems (Knopf, 1952) The Death of Captain Nemo: A Narrative Poem (A.A. Knopf, 1949) Poems for Music, 1917–1947. (1947) Pattern of a Day (1940) In a Time of Mistrust (1939) A Letter to Robert Frost and Others (1937). The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer. (A. A. Knoft, 1933) The Gates of the Compass: A Poem in Four Parts Together with Twenty-Two Shorter Pieces (Viking Press, 1930) The Seventh Hill (Viking Press, 1928) The Halt in the Garden (Elkin Matthews,1925) The Coming Forth by Day: An Anthology of Poems from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1923) Hills Give Promise, a Volume of Lyrics, Together with Carmus: A Symphonic Poem (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1923) Alchemy: A Symphonic Poem (Kessinger Publishing, 1920) The Five Books of Youth (Brentano's, 1920) Sonnets and Other Lyrics (Harvard University Press, 1917) Eight Harvard Poets (1917), which included works by E. E. Cummings and John Dos Passos Novels Riverhead (Alfred Knopf, 1932) My Heart for Hostage (Random House, 1942) In 2022 this novel was digitized and made available for free download by Personville Press. Criticism and scholarship In Pursuit of Poetry (McGraw-Hill, 1960)* First Principles of Verse. (The Writer, Inc., 1938). Some Roots of English Poetry (Wheaton College Press, 1933) Editor and/or translator Kahlil Gibran. A Tear and a Smile. Introduction by Robert Hillyer. (A. A. Knopf, 1959). Eight More Harvard Poets. Edited by Samuel Foster Damon and Robert Hillyer. (Brentano, 1923) Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne and The Complete Poetry of William Blake, Introduction by Robert Hillyer, Random House: New York, 1941. pages xv-lv. Personal In 1926, he married Dorothy Hancock Tilton. They had one son, but divorced in 1943. He was 66 when he died in Wilmington,