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John Ashbery

1927 - 2017

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John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Ashbery is the 2,874th most popular writer (up from 3,647th in 2019), the 4,124th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,675th in 2019) and the 332nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, John Ashbery ranks 2,874 out of 7,302. Before him are Karl Philipp Moritz, Eric Roth, Balthasar Russow, Mihailo Lalić, Hilaire Belloc, and Wolfgang Iser. After him are Samad Vurgun, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Gasparo Contarini, Aelred of Rievaulx, Angela Carter, and Josef Škvorecký.

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Among people born in 1927, John Ashbery ranks 179. Before him are Adhemar da Silva, Oleg Yefremov, Roger Walkowiak, Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Carlos Romero, and Werner Liebrich. After him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Ahmad Jannati, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Ales Adamovich, Joe Turkel, and Paula Hawkins. Among people deceased in 2017, John Ashbery ranks 200. Before him are Robert James Waller, Roger Walkowiak, Dritëro Agolli, Naim Süleymanoğlu, Imre Földi, and Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria. After him are Michael Bond, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Allan Holdsworth, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Bernard Francis Law, and Željko Perušić.

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Among people born in United States, John Ashbery ranks 4,124 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Wilson (1946), Eric Roth (1945), Sewall Wright (1889), Patrick Wayne (1939), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), and Chrissie Hynde (1951). After him are Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Jedediah Smith (1799), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Julie Newmar (1933), Grace Coolidge (1879), and Jack Sherman (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Ashbery ranks 332. Before him are Harold Robbins (1916), Charles Berlitz (1913), Adrienne Rich (1929), Tom Robbins (1932), Judith Miller (1948), and Eric Roth (1945). After him are Edward Bunker (1933), Eric Carle (1929), Carl Bernstein (1944), Richard Wright (1908), Joe Hill (1972), and K. A. Applegate (1956).

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