John Ashbery (Poet) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered to be the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tone of the day." Langdon Hammer, director of the English department at Yale University, wrote in 2008: "No character has appeared in American poetry in the past 50 years like John Ashbery" and "No American poet has a vocabulary. Larger and more diverse, not Whitman, not Pound. Stephanie Burt, a poet and professor of English at Harvard, compared Ashbery to Dr. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last but half the number of surviving English-speaking poets considered a great role model, and the other half thought incomprehensible. "More than 20 volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American poetry award, including Pulitzer Prize 1976 for the collection of Self-Portrait in Convex Mirror.

Born	John Lawrence Ashbery, July 28, 1927, Rochester, New York, U.S.
Died	September 3, 2017, Hudson, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Poet, professor, and art critic
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University, Columbia University
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

About John Ashbery

Poet John Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927 in Rochester, New York, United States (He dies at the age of 90, on September 3, 2017).

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, his 1975 poetry collection, won the Pulitzer Prize for postmodernism and surrealism. The Tennis Court Oath, Some Trees, and As Umbrellas Follow Rain are among his other works.

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John Ashbery before becoming famous

John Ashbery was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1927 is also the year of Rabbit (兔) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He went to Columbia University and New York University. Turandot and Other Poems, his debut poetry collection, was published in 1953.

Achievement of John Ashbery

He wrote for The New York Times and Newsweek as an art critic.

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John Ashbery's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Chester and Helen Ashbery raised him in Rochester, New York. He and his companion, David Kermani, eventually relocated in New York City.

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^PoetW.H. Auden awarded Ashbery the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956.

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