Reporter (1895)
Poultry farmer (1900-1909)
English teacher, Pinkerton Academy (1906-1911)
English teacher, New Hampshire Normal School (1911-1912)
Instructor, Amherst College (1917-20, 1923-25, 1926-1938, 1949)
Instructor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1921-1922, 1925)
Lecturer, Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College (1921-1963)
Associate Fellow, Yale University (1933)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow in Poetry, Harvard University (1939-1943)
George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities, Dartmouth College (1943-1949)