Hmm …

… Uncensored John Simon: Who Killed Poetry? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



I suppose that the answer to the question posed in the title is "John Ashbery." But while the post makes plain that Simon does not like Ashbery's poetry, and even doubts that it is poetry, he never actually gets around to demonstrating that Ashbery somehow killed poetry.

For what it's worth, here is the only review I ever wrote of Ashbery's work. I seem to have gleaned some meaning — and some pleasure  — from it.