''The Tennis Court Oath'' is a 1962 poetry collection by the American writer
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
. Ashbery lived in Paris when it was published, working as an art critic. The book received few and negative reviews upon its original publication.
See also
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1962 in poetry
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Events
* May 30 – Composer Benjamin Britten's '' War Requiem'', incorporating settings of Wilfred Owen's poems, is pre ...
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American literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...
References
1962 poetry books
American poetry collections
Poetry by John Ashbery
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