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John Ashbery

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Quotations
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John Ashbery Quotes
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John Ashbery ( July 28 , 1927 ) is an American poet . He was also a prominent art critic . His art criticism has been collected in the 1989 volume Reported Sightings, Art Chronicles 1957-1987 , edited by the poet David Bergman . Sourced There is the...


Biography

Name: John (Lawrence) Ashbery
Variant Name: John (Lawrence) Ashbery, John Lawrence Ashbery, Jonas Berry
Birth Date: July 28, 1927
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John (Lawrence) Ashbery
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In a 1961 piece for ArtNews on the murmuring intimacy of Henri Michaux's work, John Ashbery singled out this statement of Michaux's aims: Instead of one vision which excludes others, I would have liked to draw the moments that, placed side by side, go...
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Biography of John (Lawrence) Ashbery
4,189 words, approx. 14 pages
If one word had to be used to describe John Ashbery's poetry, it would have to be that it is difficult--difficult to read, difficult to understand, and sometimes difficult to like. His admirers and detractors alike concede the point. But Ashbery's...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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John Ashbery Information
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Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were children. Ashbery was educated at Deerfield Academy. At Deerfield, Ashbery read such poets as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Wallace Stevens,...


News and Journals
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New Criterion
John Ashbery Other Traditions.(Review)
02/01/2001: 760 words, approx. 3 pages
John Ashbery Other Traditions. Harvard University Press, 160 pages, $22.95 In his recent paean to the New York School poets, The Last Avant-Garde (1998), David Lehman describes the composition of John Ashbery's Charles Eliot Norton Lecture on Raymond Roussel. On the morning of...
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The Economist (US)
Paying attention. (poet John Ashbery)
09/14/1991: 822 words, approx. 3 pages
Poet John Ashbery, who has been compared to Robert Lowell by some critics and castigated by others, has recently published "Flow Chart", an epic 216-page work. Ashbery's early life and attitudes toward his craft are examined. FROM his apartment in New York, John...
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The New York Observer
Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer
7/17/2005: 626 words, approx. 2 pages
Alex Katz in Maine. This second show also includes a selection of oil studies and drawings in ink and watercolor. Together, the two exhibitions constitute a major event—not only for Maine but for the history of American art. It can now no longer be doubted...
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The New York Observer
Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer
7/17/2005: 698 words, approx. 2 pages
For the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer. In June, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Me., organized a comprehensive exhibition of the artist's diminutive collages (over 70 in number), most of them dating from the 1950's;...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jody Norton
9,786 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Norton analyzes Ashbery's verse in relationship to the major modes of linguistic theory and philosophy, in particular contemporary gay theory.
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Critical Essay by Bonnie Costello
8,500 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Costello explores the relationship between author and reader in Ashbery's verse.
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Critical Essay by David Kalstone
8,179 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Kalstone traces the thematic and stylistic development of Ashbery's verse.
 


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