Ben Hickman is the author of John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh, 2012) and has published numerous essays on the New York School, the New American Poetry, John Clare and others. He studied at University College, London and currently teaches at the University of Kent.

• Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor; 2. 'The music of all present': Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare; 3. 'Always articulating these preludes': landscape, Wordsworth, 'A Wave' and after; 4. 'These decibels': Eliot, Ashbery, and allusion; 5. The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden; Bibliography; Index.

Ben Hickman is the author of John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh, 2012) and has published numerous essays on the New York School, the New American Poetry, John Clare and others. He studied at University College, London and currently teaches at the University of Kent.

• Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor; 2. 'The music of all present': Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare; 3. 'Always articulating these preludes': landscape, Wordsworth, 'A Wave' and after; 4. 'These decibels': Eliot, Ashbery, and allusion; 5. The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden; Bibliography; Index.

Ben Hickman is the author of John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh, 2012) and has published numerous essays on the New York School, the New American Poetry, John Clare and others. He studied at University College, London and currently teaches at the University of Kent.

• Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor; 2. 'The music of all present': Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare; 3. 'Always articulating these preludes': landscape, Wordsworth, 'A Wave' and after; 4. 'These decibels': Eliot, Ashbery, and allusion; 5. The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden; Bibliography; Index.