The Tennis Court Oath

Name: The Tennis Court Oath
Author: John Ashbery

by John Ashbery

Fragmented narrative attempting legal verdict on abstract concepts and love

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John Ashbery

American poet whose Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror won the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1975 and who remained the dominant American poet of his generation. His long poem Flow Chart exemplifies his expansive, digressive style.

More by John Ashbery

Some TreesModernist poems exploring syntax, meaning, and the nature of literary language
Rivers and MountainsLyric poems investigating relationships between perception, time, and aesthetic form
Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorSelf-reflexive meditation using ekphrasis to explore identity, art, and consciousness
A WaveLong poem using accumulation and digression to explore consciousness and experience