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John Lawrence Ashbery (1927-2017) was a renowned American poet and art critic who published more than 20 volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror". Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Here are ten quiz questions about him:

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What did Ashbery wish for his work to be?

  • Inaccessible

  • A private dialogue with himself

  • Controversial

  • Accessible to as many people as possible

Where was Ashbery raised?

  • New York City

  • Rochester

  • Buffalo

  • Cleveland

What was the title of Ashbery's collection that won the Pulitzer Prize?

  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

  • The Double Dream of Spring

  • Three Poems

  • Some Trees

Who compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot?

  • John Bayley

  • Langdon Hammer

  • Stephanie Burt

  • Robert Creeley

What magazine published two of Ashbery's poems without his knowledge or permission?

  • Art and Literature

  • Newsweek

  • The New York Herald Tribune

  • Poetry

What was Ashbery's first ambition?

  • To be a poet

  • To be an art critic

  • To be a farmer

  • To be a painter

Who was Ashbery's roommate at Harvard?

  • Robert Creeley

  • Frank O'Hara

  • Kenneth Koch

  • Peter Davison

What did John Bayley say about Ashbery?

  • He was an art critic

  • He was a famous painter

  • He was an influential American poet

  • He was a surrealist poet

Who did Ashbery become close friends with when he returned to New York in 1965?

  • Andy Warhol

  • William S. Burroughs

  • Allen Ginsberg

  • Jack Kerouac

In what country did Ashbery live from the mid-1950s through 1965?

  • Germany

  • Italy

  • France

  • England

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