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Literature. Poetry Monday!: "So That's Who I Remind Me Of" by Ogden Nash "When I consider men of golden talents, / I'm delighted, in my introverted way, / To discover, as I'm drawing up the ...
The poet Ogden Nash was born upstate New York, worked in Manhattan and lived in Baltimore, Md., for much of his life. But Nash was a Seacoast resident at heart and spent summers with his family in ...
Ogden Nash, Author, Linnell Nash Smith, Editor Little Brown and Company $19.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-316-59835-4 Smith, Nash's daughter, here unveils only a portion of the letters written by the ...
Ogden Nash, a renowned American poet, lived in Savannah, Georgia during his childhood because his father worked in the naval stores industry. Harriet Ross Colquitt, author of "The Savannah Cook ...
As Angell noted in a 2002 piece about Nash, accompanied by a handful of reprinted poems, “Ogden Nash hasn’t been around for awhile, but the need for him remains steady.” ...
Literature. Ogden Nash’s poetry is sure to not only enrich your English language skills. But it will sharpen your appreciation of wit and humour in ways that make “light verse” something you ...
The critic Louis Untermeyer once said of Ogden Nash that his poetry “is interesting to brows of all altitudes.” Nash, a master of light verse, contributed three hundred and twenty-nine poems ...
Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died Wednesday of Myelodysplasia at her Roland Park Place residence where she had lived since 1983. She was 88. Born Frances Rider Leonard in ...
“Odgen Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse” by Douglas M. Parker, foreword by Dana Gioia Ivan R. Dee, 336 pp., $27.50 ...
When the Ogden Nash stamp is issued on August 19, it will be the first time the word "sex" has appeared on a U.S. stamp. It will probably also be the first time a limerick has appeared on a U.S ...
BY STEVE JUSSEAUME NORTH HAMPTON - In 1956 Ogden and Frances Nash bought a home on Little Boar's Head. For the next 15 years the poet and his family were a summer fixture in North Hampton, until Og… ...