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Robert B. Shaw (born 1947) is an American poet and critic. Shaw served as a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College from 1983 to 2016.

Early life
Shaw was born in Pennsylvania in 1947. Shaw received a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD from Yale University. At Harvard, Shaw had studied with poet Robert Lowell and was president of the The Harvard Advocate.

Career
Shaw is the author of several collections of poetry and the Poetry Foundation has described Shaw's poetry as "wry and plainspoken formal verse . . . often grounded in, or sprung from, the debris of daily life".

Shaw has written his criticism in publications including the The New York Times Book Review. In 1981, Shaw published The Call of God: The Theme of Vocation in the Poetry of Donne and Herbert, a critical study of poets John Donne and George Herbert. In 2002, Shaw won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for his collection of poetry titled Solving For X (2002). Other collections published by Shaw include Below the Surface (1999), The Wonder of Seeing Double (1988), and Blank Verse (2007). Shaw has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, along with being the Emily Dickinson Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College 1983 to 2016.

Publications

 * The Wonder of Seeing Double (1988)
 * Below the Surface (1999)
 * Solving For X (2002)
 * Blank Verse (2007)
 * Aromatics (2011)
 * A Late Spring, and After (2015)