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    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
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    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"

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    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535830607
    A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"

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      A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" - Gale

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      Paradoxes and Oxymorons

      John Ashbery

      1981

      Introduction

      Paradoxes and Oxymorons originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and was later published in John Ashbery’s 1981 collection of poems Shadow Train, nominated for the American Book Award. A favorite both of the poet’s and of editors’, Paradoxes and Oxymorons has been widely anthologized. At one point Ashbery wanted the poem to be the title of the collection because he felt that it was the most accessible poem in the book. Written between March and mid-October 1979 in the poet’s newly acquired Victorian-era house in upstate New York, Shadow Train contains fifty sixteen-line poems that some critics have likened to a sonnet sequence. Unlike sonnets, which consist of fourteen lines, Ashbery’s poems have no set rhyme scheme, and Ashbery himself has said that he doesn’t much like

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