Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". After the publication of "Some Trees", selecting j...

One of the most significant poetic achievements of our time, John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award upon its publication in 1976. The long...

John Ashbery has been called "the finest poet in English of his generation" ("The Times"). A broad selection of Ashbery's prose writings from 1957 to 2004 is collected here for the first time. Literary reviews and essays, articles on film, and key pi...

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W. H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, af...