Name Mark Ford | Role Poet | |
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Education Harvard University, University of Oxford Books Raymond Roussel and the r, Soft sift, A Driftwood Altar, Landlocked, The church at Washingt Similar People Keiko Abe, Will Self, Charles Simic | ||
Mark ford with john ashbery 92y readings
Mark Ford (b. 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet. He currently serves as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.
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- Mark ford with john ashbery 92y readings
- Mark ford and john ashberry
- Life
- Poetry
- Prose
- Anthologies
- Biography
- Translation
- Criticism
- References
Mark ford and john ashberry
Life
He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond Roussel. From 1991-1993 he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan.
He is Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.
He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.
Helen Vendler compared him with John Ashbery.