John Ashbery
Novelist, Author
1927 –
Who is John Ashbery?
John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial. Ashbery has stated that he wishes his work to be accessible to as many people as possible, and not to be a private dialogue with himself. At the same time, he once joked that some critics still view him as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism."
"No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery," Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible".
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1927
Rochester - Also known as
- Ashbery, John
- John Lawrence Ashbery
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Columbia University
English Literature
( - 1951) - Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
( - 1949) - New York University
- Deerfield Academy
- Master of Arts, Columbia University
- Lived in
- France
(1955 - ) - New York
- France
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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