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...Advocate, one in a plethora of aspiring young writers whose names would later ring with household familiarity. The presence on campus of fellow undergraduates and now much-acclaimed poets Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch put Harvard at the "center of cultural poetic activity" in the late 1940's, Shoptaw says...
...Wallace Stevens, who attended Harvard at the turn of the century, was also an important influence on Ashbery and Ashbery's writing, Shoptaw says...
...that time, Shoptaw points out, Ezra Pound was still alive and writing, and Ashbery's comment reflects his rejection of what Shoptaw calls "the Pound tradition, the other poetic tradition of high modernism...
...Shoptaw says Ashbery disliked that extremely modern "poetry with footnotes" or writing "that you had to bone...
...fact, Ashbery, whose writing career began post-World War II, was part of a trend towards non-representational art and music at the time, Shoptaw says. His poetry was unique in writing circles, however; contemporary poetry was largely "mired in describing ordinary experience, and especially ordinary suburban experience," Shoptaw says...