Frank O'Hara Summary

Frank O'Hara was a leading member of the so-called New York School of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler and received its name from its associa... Read more

Frank O'Hara was a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. The Abstract Expressionist painters in New Yor... Read more

In the following essay, Vendler provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of O'Hara's poetry. Now that Knopf has given us O'Hara's Collected Poems they had better rapid... Read more

In the following review, Meyer surveys the strengths and weakness of O'Hara's verse and links his work with the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire. Since the last War the United States h... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1978, Kikel discusses O'Hara as a gay poet. The stream seems to have spilled itself out, the stream that (after the freak Fire Island beach ac... Read more

In the following essay, Blasing considers O'Hara's use of language in “Biotherm.” Reflect a moment on the flesh in which you're mired (“In the Movies&#... Read more

In the following essay, Bowers emphasizes the importance of New York City in O'Hara's poetry, yet contends that his association with the city has ultimately devalued his work. Frank O... Read more

In the following essay, Eberly finds parallels between the poetry of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara. Born almost one hundred years apart, Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara lived to chronic... Read more

In the following essay, Goldstein contends that O'Hara effectively addresses the crisis in the movie picture industry in the late 1950s in his poetry. Gi; “to the Film Industry in Cris... Read more

In the following essay, Crain utilizes the work of child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott in order to explicate stylistic aspects of O'Hara's poetry as well as his poetic theory of Personism... Read more

In the following essay, Sweet investigates the influence of French avant-garde art and the painting of Jackson Pollock on O'Hara's verse and poetic theory. In his apologetic letter of... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Zweig 1956–57 were good years for literary revolution. That is when Meditations in an Emergency and Howl appeared on opposite coasts, two of the most important first boo... Read more

Critical Essay by Fred Moramarco It is in the poetry of New York poets like O'Hara and Ashbery that the painterly esthetic of Abstract Expressionism manifests itself in literary art, though Ol... Read more