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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes , he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Ogden Nash is kind of a quotation sink for all authorless bits of comic doggerel just as Churchill gets all spare political quotes and Wilde gets arch put downs. These are the earliest cites for the opening lines I can find .
The HIBK school was parodied by Ogden Nash in his poem "Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You": Had-I-But-Known narrators are the ones who hear a stealthy creak at midnight in the tower where the body lies, and, instead of locking their door or arousing the drowsy policeman posted outside their room, sneak off by themselves to the tower and suddenly ...
Nash was on supervised release on Feb. 13 when he ... Few rearrested under NYC’s supervised release, but repeat offenders spark criticism of program as ‘Russian roulette’ Skip to main content
One Touch of Venus is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the 1885 novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values, artistic fads and romantic and sexual mores.
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) used multisyllabic rhymes in a comic, satirical way, as is common in traditional comic poetry. [4] For example, in his poem ‘The Axolotl’ he rhymes "axolotl" with "whaxolotl". [4] Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) is one of few poets who used multisyllabic rhymes to convey non-satirical subject matter. [5]
It was likely popularized by its use in a poem by Ogden Nash [1] and has since become a common colloquialism. Before the 19th century, breeds of dogs (other than lap dogs) were largely functional. They performed activities such as hunting, tracking, watching, protecting and guarding; and language describing the dog often reflected these roles.
"Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals" is a poem written by Ogden Nash for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine.In the poem, Nash dedicates each letter of the alphabet to a legendary Major League Baseball player.