John Lawrence Ashbery 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." Wikipedia
Born: July 28, 1927, Rochester, NY
Died: September 3, 2017 (age 90 years), Hudson, NY
Influenced by: Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, and more
Education: Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1951), Harvard University (1949), New York University, and more
Parents: Chester Frederick Ashbery and Helen Lawrence