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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

JOHN ASHBERY (1927–2017) was a preeminent American poet. Over the course of a highly prolific career that spanned seventy years, he won nearly every major American prize for poetry and was widely viewed as one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century.

Oct 16, 2020 · The work of John Ashbery has inspired and influenced countless poets, and delighted several generations of readers. It is a poetry alert to all the possibilities of language and all the quicksilver movements of the mind as it engages …

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.

Author of twenty poetry collections, as well as plays, fiction, translations, and art criticism, he has long defied any singular artistic identity, “juggling the infinite possibilities of genre,” as critic Helen Vendler put it.