Ogden Nash Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Robert V. Williams

Critical Essay by Robert V. Williams

Well, here is Ogden Nash once more in a new selection [A Penny Saved Is Impossible]. He confirmed the existence of the absurd for us when we were young enough really to enjoy discovering there were old misifts who still laughed…. Nash once more spots his sights on the pompous, the pedantic, the arrogant, the pretentious, on the man who knows what's best for all of us, on the fraud, the fool. He once said of himself, "Being both viable and friable, I wish to prolong my existence." He does so right here….

Robert V. Williams, "Language & Literature: 'A Penny Saved Is Impossible'," in Best Sellers (copyright © 1982 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation), Vol. 41, No. 10, January, 1982, p. 394.