SOURCE: “With the Best of Intentions,” in Times Literary Supplement, February 3, 1984, p. 118.
In the following negative review, Disch notes the limited nature of Nash's verse, asserting that “measured against the general level of accomplishment in any standard anthology of humorous verse, Nash's limitations are glaringly evident.”
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