Last Updated: 11 Jul, 2023 | Views: 335
Age: 90
Profession: Poet
Other Profession(s): Author, NoveList, Essayist, Professor, Playwright, Translator, Art Critic
Famous For: A Wave (1984)
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
John Lawrence Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927, and died on September 3, 2017. He was a Poet and art critic, and he was born in the United States. Among American poets of his time, Ashbery is considered to be the most influential. In 1976, Ashbery won a Pulitzer Prize and won nearly every major American poetry award, including the Oxford University literary critic John Bayley's praise for Ashbery.
Career:
In 1956: Ashbery was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
The Tibor de Nagy Gallery co-owner John Bernard Myers categorized Ashbery's avant-garde poetry in the late 1950s.
1953: Semi-Colon began publication, in which Auden, James Ingram Merill, Saul Bellow, and other New York School poets appeared.
During the early 1960s, Ashbery published a few pieces in the avant-garde magazine Nomad.
The 1970s saw Ashbery's reputation as an important poet emerge from his status as an obscure avant-garde experimentalist.
2008: Among the Library of America's series of publications is his Collected Poems 1956-1987, published in the same year.
Awards:
1953: Turandot and other poems
1956: Some Trees
1962: The Tennis Court Oath
1966: Rivers and Mountains
1970: The Double Dream of Spring
1972: Three Poems
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