`   ::: BTW, shouldn't the first sentence say that Ashbery is a modern poet or something to that effect? The omission of this and the use of a picture of him in jacket and tie behind a podium gives the strong impression that the reader is to think that Ashbery is definitely Old Gard when that is not at all the case. And what about ``he was graduated from Harvard`` as if it happened with merely his passive participation? We don't speak that way and neither did Ashbery. How far back would you have to go to find a serious usage like that?  `