John Ashbery
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 July 1927
- Died
- 03 September 2017
- Works
- 241
Top works
- The Grand eccentrics
- Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- Hervé Télémaque, paintings, Klaus Geissler, space chambers
- PEN America : A Journal for Writers and Readers
- Hotel Lautréamont
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- The Lonedale Operator — Himself2020
- Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory — Self2017
- New Scenes from America — Himself - Poet2003
- In the Bathtub of the World — Self2001
- Money1968
- Screen Test [ST13]: John Ashbery — Self1966
- Once Upon An El1955
- Presenting Jane1953
- Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets and Beyond
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,092
- Total plays
- 6,816
Tags
surrealism
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he accurately characterizes himself as having been described as 'a surrealist poet whose poetry defies even the logic of surrealism'. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Ashbery">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
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Key facts
- Born
- John Lawrence Ashbery , ( 1927-07-28 ) July 28, 1927, Rochester, New York , U.S.
- Died
- September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03) (aged 90), Hudson, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet, professor, and art critic
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ), New York University , Columbia University ( MA )
- Period
- 1949–2017
- Literary movement
- Surrealism , The New York School , Postmodernism
- Notable works
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- Notable awards
- MacArthur Fellowship , Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , National Book Award , National Book Critics Circle Award , Guggenheim Fellowship
- Spouse
- David Kermani
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 July 1927
- Died
- 3 September 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Place of death
- Hudson
- Occupation
- translator
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- French
Article
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
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." Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie 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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