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John Lawrence Ashbery[1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." [3] .
John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant.
Jan 2, 2018 · John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger ...
John Ashbery was an American poet noted for the elegance, originality, and obscurity of his poetry. Ashbery graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and received a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1951.
A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988–99, Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He divided his time between New York City and Hudson, New York. John Ashbery died on September 3, 2017.
Critics and poets widely acknowledge that American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017) was one of the most important and influential poets of the past 70 years. His first poems were published in Poetry magazine in 1945, when Ashbery was just a teenager, but his name didn't appear next to his poems.
Sep 3, 2017 · John Ashbery, a poet whose teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early-21st-century American literature, died on Sunday at his home in...
A native of Rochester, New York, John Ashbery (1927 – 2017) was the prolific author of twenty three volumes of poetry, plus fiction, plays and criticism. He was the recipient of numerous literary awards, including The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, all of which were garnered by his 1976 ...
American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017), whose work—since it first began appearing in the early 1950s—has become the subject of hundreds of literary and philosophical studies, has a style so distinct that it sometimes allows us, as critic John Bayley once put it, “to see life for a moment the Ashbery way.”.
John Ashbery Famous Poems and Best Books. John Ashbery has won nearly every major American award for poetry including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. He is one of the most decorated poets in American history.
