Word: poets
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...John Ashbery '49, the man often called "the universal poet." He is sometimes referred to as "the Walt Whitman of our time" for his ability to find the sublime in the mundane and to transcend the personal to explain the shared sentiments of the nation...
...Ashbery received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for his 1975 book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Posie. He has also taken the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, as well as many others...
...Fulbright, Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations have all provided Ashbery with fellowships, and the poet is currently the chancellor of the Academy of American Poets...
...Ashbery's career as a poet seems to have begun in earnest during his undergraduate years at Harvard...
...wrote his senior thesis on W. H. Auden, whom Ashbery met while an undergraduate when the British poet came to read at the University in March...