(The ultimate collection of verses by America's best-loved...)
The ultimate collection of verses by America's best-loved humorous author, culled from collections put together by Nash himself. Features Nash's unique rhymes, puns, and observations about everything under the sun.
(Dive into the wacky waters with America's favorite humori...)
Dive into the wacky waters with America's favorite humorist and poet extraordinaire, Ogden Nash. His playful and often preposterous poetry celebrates aquatic creatures both above and beneath the water's surface. From sharks and shad to swans and prawns, Nash cleverly captures the whimsy of the denizens of the deep while delivering his pearls of wit with his usual panache and splash! This irresistible collection of twenty-seven of Nash's finest is illustrated by botanical and zoological illustrator Katie Lee.
Ogden Nash: Versus / Good Intentions / Private Dining Room / Many Long Years Ago / I'm a Stranger Here Myself (5 Volume Set)
(Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for h...)
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry
Ogden Nash Collection of Books - COLLECTABLE ITEMS (Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Good Intentions, Many Long Years Ago, The Private Dining Room)
(5 Ogden Nash Books by Little Brown and Company 1935 - 194...)
5 Ogden Nash Books by Little Brown and Company 1935 - 1942 inside cover. All beautiful condition. Red Material Cover, Black with Engraved Gold Design and Words. Older Fashioned Paper with Feathered Edges.
Published Simultaneously in Canada By McClelland and Stewart Limited
(In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a...)
In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic.
(A collection of verses about animals from the barnyard to...)
A collection of verses about animals from the barnyard to the aquarium and the haunts of the lion and rhinoceros also includes verses about mythical animals
Ogden Nash was an American poet and author. He was well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Background
Ogden Nash was born on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York, United States. He was the son of Edmund Strudwick Nash and Mattie Chenault. His father's often unsuccessful involvement in the import-export business led the family to relocate frequently throughout the East Coast, but Nash spent most of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia.
Education
Ogden Nash received his secondary education at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1917 to 1920, and he attended Harvard University from 1920 to 1921, at which time financial difficulties at home forced him to leave and seek employment.
Career
Ogden Nash held a variety of jobs, none for very long. He tried his hand at serious verse in the style of the eighteenth-century Romantic poets, but soon came to realize his own limitations. In 1930, Nash's career as a published poet began in earnest when he wrote a poem called Spring Comes to Murray Hill and submitted it to the New Yorker, considered one of the most respected, well-read periodicals of the day.
The New Yorker published Spring Comes to Murray Hill, and invited Nash to continue to submit; his regular appearances, in turn, led to a contract for his first work, Hard Lines, published by Simon & Schuster in 1931.
It was a tremendous success, and catapulted Nash into a certain, albeit unique, place in American letters.
The great thing about him is that he doesn't really compare with anyone, "opined William Rose Benet in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1931.
During the 1936 and 1946, Nash was praised as the heir of the revered American humorist Will Rogers, and he was also fixed among the pantheon of cutting American satirists such as Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and H. L. Mencken. British reviews of his work were sometimes scathing in their assessments, for he was known to take great liberties with spelling and rhyme.
His experiences with fatherhood provided more comic fodder for his verse, evident in the 1936 collection The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse. His efforts included screenplays for three Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films-The Firefly (1937), The Shining Hair (1938), and The Feminine Touch (1941).
In California he met another well-known scribe, S. J. Perelman, who had written for the Marx Brothers films. They collaborated on a musical, recruiting the German-born composer of satirical operas, Kurt Weil, to write the score.
During the 1956, he wrote more frequently for the children's market, finding success with such titles as The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus (1957), Custard the Dragon (1959), and Girls are Silly (1962).
He also wrote lyrics for television programs, such as adaptations of Peter and the Wolf and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Several collections of his work were published posthumously, including I Wouldn't Have Missed It (1975) and A Penny Saved Is Impossible (1981).
Elsewhere in his poetry Nash offered trenchant observations on American social mores, or lambasted religious moralizing and pompous conservative senators.
Nash's verse skewered the pretensions of the modern middle class existence and gave voice to the inner seethings of the average, besieged-by-life individual-and he did it with a cunning, swift humor.
Quotations:
"I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue And say to myself you have a responsible job, havenue?
Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel?
If you have a sore throat you can cure it by using a good goggerel If you have a sore foot you can get it fixed by a chiropodist And you can get your original sin removed by St. John the Bopodist. "
"It demonstrates that our mother tongue can be made to behave in a manner hardly becoming a mother, but irreproachably amusing. "
Membership
Ogden Nash was inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Yet it was his decades-long association with the venerable New Yorker that essayist Reed Whittemore cited as his greatest impact on American letters: in contrast to the serious, classical-form poetry written by the magazine's roster of earnest bards, "Nash was the one who practically singlehandedly kept the verse department of the magazine in the business that the rest of the magazine was in, of commenting with intelligence, wit and asperity upon the contemporary American scene-its fads and fashions, its promotional and rhetorical excesses, its varied social and cultural crises, " Whittemore declared in the New Republic.
Connections
Nash had married Frances Rider Leonard in 1931, with whom he had two daughters.
Though his children were grown, he maintained contact with the juvenile state of mind through his grandchildren, and often wrote humorously about his experiences babysitting them.