"It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded."
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John Ashbery
(–) was an award-winning American poet and a prominent art critic. Educated at Harvard and , he published 26 volumes of poetry spanning 60 years and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a in 1976 and the and prizes in 1984 for the collections ' and A Wave, respectively. He was elected a Fellow of the in 1983, taught at as the Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature from 1990 until his retirement in 2008, and remains the only writer to
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