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Ashbery, John - 1927–, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y. Ashbery is one of the most acclaimed of recent American poets. His poems are experimental in style and syntax, strongly visual, and narrative but typically somewhat obscure. His collections include Some Trees (1956), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975; Pulitzer Prize), Shadow Train (1981), A Wave (1984), April Galleons (1987)


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    A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery » Read Now

    by Margueritte S. Murphy. 246 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    From its inception in nineteenth-century France, the prose poem has embraced an aesthetic of shock and innovation rather than tradition and convention. In this suggestive study, Margueritte S. Murphy both explores the history of this genre in Anglo-American literature and provides a model for...
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    Artists' Theatre: Four Plays ("The Heroes" by John Ashbery begins on p. 43) » Read Now

    by Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Merrill, Lionel Abel, Herbert Machiz. 224 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...by by Frank OHara John Ashbery THE BAIT ABSALOM...THE HEROES by John Ashbery 43 THE BAIT by...Try! Try! , The Heroes by John Ashbery, and The Bait by James...
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    Disseminating "Circumference": The Diachronic Presence of Dickinson in John Ashbery's "Clepsydra", in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by Annette Gilson. 21 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...diachronic presence of Dickinson in John Ashberys "Clepsydra." by Annette Gilson John Ashberys "Clepsydra" (Rivers and Mountains...Shoptaw 83-84). WORKS CITED Ashbery...
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    'Whispers Out of Time': The Syntax of Being in the Poetry of John Ashbery, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by Jody Norton. 25 pgs.

    ...Time: The syntax of being in the poetry of John Ashbery. by Jody Norton The meaning...Investigations (20e) The poem is you. - John Ashbery, Shadow Train (3) In describing...
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    Modern Poetry after Modernism (Chap. 6 "John Ashbery's Individual Talent") » Read Now

    by James Longenbach. 209 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Small World 65 SIX John Ashberys Individual Talent 85...evident in this passage from John Ashberys The System. For many weeks you...Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, or...
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    Ashbery's Untitled, in Explicator » Read Now

    by Olivia Carr Edenfield. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Elizabeth Bishops poetry has had on the poetry of John Ashbery has been widely cited. 1 Ashbery himself remarked...honest and courageous" (15). 4. John Ashbery, "Untilted"...
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    John Ashbery's Revision of the Post-Romantic Quest: Meaning, Evasion, and Allusion in "Grand Galop", in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by Frank J. Lepkowski. 15 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...John Ashberys revision of the post-romantic quest...It has been the fate thus far of John Ashberys poem "Grand Galop" to languish in the...notion that "It seems time to...
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    The Hitherside of History: Tone, Knowledge, and Spirit in John Ashbery's "The System", in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now

    by Jeff Staiger. 15 pgs.

    ...History: Tone, Knowledge, and Spirit in John Ashberys "The System" Jeff Staiger John Ashbery has described his prose poem, "The System...attributed to Ashbery by David...
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    Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets ("The Imminence of a Revelation" by John Ashbery p. 69) » Read Now

    by Richard Jackson. 230 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...61 The Imminence of a Revelation John Ashbery 69 Renaming the Present St...transitory--this sense of transitoriness is at the heart of Ashberys poems. So there is an...
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    Reports of Looting and Insane Buggery behind Altars: John Ashbery's Queer Politics, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by John Vincent. 20 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...insane buggery behind altars: John Ashberys queer politics by John...there is no disagreement about John Ashberys sexuality. Perhaps that is because...misrepresent...
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    Harold Bloom: The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision (Chap. Five "The Poems at the End of the Romantic Mind: A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery") » Read Now

    by David Fite. 230 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...of the Romantic Mind: A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery 123 SIX Humanism in the...Ltd. To Viking Penguin, Inc.: from John Ashbery, As We Know , 1979 by John Ashbery; from John...
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    The Columbia History of American Poetry ("James Merrill and John Ashbery" begins on p. 750) » Read Now

    by Brett C. Millier, Jay Parini. 894 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "These 31 essays... interrogate, dismantle, and ultimately reassemble the history of poetry in the United States. An essential volume that shows how poetry intersects with our lives and vice versa." -- Library Journal
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    Playing It By: Literary Essays and Reviews ("John Ashbery" begins on p. 98) » Read Now

    by William H. Pritchard. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This volume gathers together thirty-three essays and reviews by one of America's liveliest critics.

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