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Quotations
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Ogden Nash Quotes
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Ogden Nash ( 19 August 1902 – 19 May 1971 ) was an American poet . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 "Adventures of Isabel" 1.2 Smoot Smites Smut 1.3 Happy Days (1933) 1.4 I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938) 1.4.1 I Have It On Good Authority 1.5 Good Intentions...


Biography

Name: Ogden Nash
Variant Name: Frediric Ogden Nash
Birth Date: August 19, 1902
Death Date: May 19, 1971
Place of Birth: Rye, New York, United States
Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, writer

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Biography of (Frediric) Ogden Nash
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During his lifetime, Ogden Nash was the most widely known, appreciated, and imitated American creator of light verse. The many Nash admirers, both scholars and the general public, would maintain, with considerable justification, that the poet's...
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Biography of Ogden Nash
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was arguably one of the most commercially successful English-language poets of the twentieth century. Nash's verse skewered the pretensions of the modern middle class existence and gave voice to the inner seethings of the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ogden Nash Information
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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
The comic versifier Ogden Nash ...
08/20/2006: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
The comic versifier Ogden Nash is remembered for a few short rhymes that, for some tastes, have become almost folkloric: "Candy/ Is dandy/ But liquor/ Is quicker," for instance, and the ingenious four lines about the turtle that "lives between plated decks/ That practically...
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New Criterion
The soul of wit.(Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse)(Book Review)
06/01/2005: 1,215 words, approx. 4 pages
Douglas M. Parker Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse. Ivan R. Dee, 336 pages, $27.50 For me, at any rate, the name "Ogden Nash" brings a smile to the lips and an itch to quote. Some poems...
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Steve Martin writes children's book
10/22/2007: 582 words, approx. 2 pages
The trend seems as plain as the nose on your child's face, or an arrow through your head. There's Madonna, Billy Crystal and Jamie Lee Curtis. And Jerry Seinfeld. And John Lithgow. And Katie Couric.All celebrities. All parents. All authors of children's books.Now Steve Martin...
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Broadway performer Ellen Hanley dies
2/13/2007: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Ellen Hanley _ a musical-theater performer best-known for playing Fiorello LaGuardia's first wife in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fiorello!" _ has died of a stroke after a long battle with cancer. She was 80.Hanley died Monday at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital, her daughter, Nora Graham, said.The actress,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by George W. Crandell
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In the following essay, Crandell examines Nash's use of the “poet-fool” persona in his humorous verse.
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Critical Essay by George W. Crandell
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In the excerpt below, Crandell examines the relationship between humor and art in Nash's poetry.
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Critical Essay by Louis Hasley
3,085 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following excerpt, Hasley examines the literary merits of Nash's poetry, evaluating themes, seriousness of subject matter, consistency in composition and editing, and Nash's elaborately artificial voice of naïveté.
 


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