Abstract:The current critical appreciations of the American poet John Ashbery (1927- ) have proved to be ambivalent to consider him as a later Romantic poet or a postmodern avant-garde, whose essential role is to achieve the postmodern project. Many of his major poems include a kind of repertoire that demonstrates a clear treatment of Romantic themes and implications tackled carefully by the poet. His later poems, however, are concerned with postmodern themes like the bewilderment of the American individual due to … Show more
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