Further Reading
- Ben Hickman, John Ashbery and English Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 2012
- Stephen Shore, Lynne Tillman, The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967
- David Perkins, A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After, Harvard University Press, 1987
- Harold Bloom, Figures of Capable Imagination
- Laura Quinney, The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery
- John Shoptaw, On the Outside Looking Out, Harvard University Press, 1995
- Helen Vendler, Soul Says, Harvard University Press, 1996
- Andrew Epstein, Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- John Emil Vincent, John Ashbery and You: His Later Books
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