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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ashbery has received more than 560,819 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. John Ashbery is the 3,647th most popular writer (down from 3,319th in 2019), the 4,675th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,351st in 2019) and the 388th most popular American Writer.

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  • 560k

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  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Ashbery ranks 3,647 out of 7,302. Before him are Tibor Déry, Eiko Kadono, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Lillian Hellman, Siegfried Sassoon, and Ghada al-Samman. After him are Felix Timmermans, Driss Chraïbi, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Samih al-Qasim, Otfrid of Weissenburg, and Farrukhi Sistani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, John Ashbery ranks 223. Before him are Roger Carel, Yusuf Idris, Thorkild Hansen, Liane Augustin, Fathima Beevi, and John Cranko. After him are Jerry Schatzberg, William Perry, David Hedison, Simin Behbahani, Theodor Wagner, and Robert N. Bellah. Among people deceased in 2017, John Ashbery ranks 234. Before him are Clifton James, Chiquito de la Calzada, Velasio de Paolis, Holger Czukay, A. R. Penck, and Jan Tříska. After him are Qian Qichen, Otto Warmbier, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jana Novotná, Jeffrey Tate, and Ilya Glazunov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Ashbery ranks 4,675 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Kanaly (1946), W. C. Fields (1880), Lillian Hellman (1905), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Scott Travis (1961), and Amy Lee (1981). After him are Michael Kors (1959), Robert Z'Dar (1950), Ryan Murphy (1965), Charles Best (1899), Carey Lowell (1961), and Otto Warmbier (1994).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Ashbery ranks 388. Before him are Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Charles Fort (1874), and Lillian Hellman (1905). After him are Richard Yates (1926), Marta Kauffman (1956), Helen Churchill Candee (1858), Thomas Friedman (1953), Robert Leckie (1920), and Joe Haldeman (1943).

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