Nash, Ogden
Nash, Ogden( 1902–71),New York author of light verse, which ranges from acidulous satire and irrepressible good humor to the mildly mad. Nash says that he is indebted to “The Sweet Singer of Michigan,” having humorously employed the mannerisms of her bad verse: hyper dithyrambic meters, pseudo-poetic inversions, gangling asymmetrical lines, extremely pat or elaborately inexact rhymes, parenthetical dissertations, and unexpected puns. His collections include Free Wheeling (1931), Hard Lines (1931), Happy Days (1933), The Primrose Path (1935), The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (1936), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), The Face Is Familiar (1940), Many Long Years Ago (1945), Versus (1949), Family Reunion (1950), Parents Keep Out (1951), The Private Dining Room (1953), You Can't Get There from Here (1957), and Everyone But Thee and Me (1962). As...
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