Alan Ansen
Alan Ansen (23 January 1922 – 12 November 2006) was an American poet and playwright and associate of
He grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Harvard. He worked as W. H. Auden's secretary and research assistant in 1948-49; he was the main author of the chronological tables in Auden's The Portable Greek Reader and Poets of the English Language.
He became a close friend of various Beat writers, and ws the model for flamboyant characters in their fiction, including Rollo
Greb in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, AJ in
He lived mostly in Athens after the early 1960s, where he was part of a circle of writers that included James Merrill and
His books and pamphlets include:
- The Old Religion (poems, 1959; 300 copies).
- Disorderly Houses: A Book of Poems (1961; Wesleyan Poetry Series)
- William Burroughs: An Essay (1986)
- The Vigilantes: A Fragment (1987; from an unpublished novel)
- Contact Highs: Selected Poems (1989)
- The Table Talk of W.H. Auden (1989; ed. by Nicholas Jenkins; excerpts from conversation diaries).
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