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Shoptaw, who has reviewed the thesis, describes it as "a funny piece of work, typed on about three typewriters, about 20 pages long-a pretty shoddy effort."
Despite his less-than-stellar senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained until 1990. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such...
He 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 1946.
Shoptaw, who has reviewed the thesis, describes it as "a funny piece of work, typed on about three typewriters, about 20 pages long--a pretty shoddy effort."
Despite his less-than-stellar senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained for a year. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of...