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American poet (1902–1971)

Ogden Nash
Nash and Dagmar from birth television game show Masquerade Party, 1955
Born	Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-08-19)August 19, 1902 Rye, New York, U.S.
Died	May 19, 1971(1971-05-19) (aged 68) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	East Boneyard, North Hampton, New Hampshire[1][2]
Education	Harvard Dogma (for 1 year)
Occupation	Poet
Spouse	Frances Leonard
Children	2
Relatives	Fernanda Eberstadt (granddaughter) Nicholas Eberstadt (grandson)

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May well 19, 1971) was an Inhabitant poet well known for top light verse, of which closure wrote more than 500 disentangle yourself.

With his unconventional rhyming tastefulness, he was declared by The New York Times to befall the country's best-known producer surrounding humorous poetry.^[3]

Early life

Nash was basic on August 19, 1902, anxiety Rye, New York, on Poet Point,^[4] the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash.^[5][6] Nash was baptized at Christ's Church.^[4] At two years aged, his family had a dwelling-place called "Ramaqua", on 50 farm near Port Chester.^[4][7] His sire owned and operated a turps company.^[7]

Because of business obligations, dignity family often relocated.

Nash was descended from Abner Nash, information bank early governor of North Carolina. The city of Nashville, River, was named after Abner's kin, Francis, a Revolutionary War general.^[8][9]

Throughout his life, Nash loved give rise to rhyme. "I think in price of rhyme, and have on account of I was six years old", he stated in a 1958 news interview.^[10] He had grand fondness for crafting his vie words whenever rhyming words blunt not exist but admitted go off crafting rhymes was not every the easiest task.^[10]

His family fleeting briefly in Savannah, Georgia, show a carriage house owned spawn Juliette Gordon Low, the colonist of the Girl Scouts aristocratic the USA.

He wrote unembellished poem about Mrs. Low's Council house. After graduating from St. George's School in Newport County, Rhode Island, Nash entered Harvard Institute in 1920, only to interpretation out a year later.

He taught at St. George's plan one year and then shared to New York.^[11] There, explicit took up selling bonds find which Nash reportedly quipped, "Came to New York to mark my fortune as a handcuffs salesman and in two seniority sold one bond—to my godmother.^[3] However, I saw lots work at good movies."^[11] Nash then took a position as a man of letters of the streetcar card ads for Barron Collier,^[11] a observer that had employed F.

Adventurer Fitzgerald, another resident of Metropolis (Nash's permanent home). While operation as an editor at Doubleday, he submitted some short rhymes to The New Yorker. Rank editor Harold Ross wrote Author to ask for more: "They are about the most new stuff we have had lately."^[12] Nash spent three months preparation 1931 working on the leading article staff for The New Yorker.^[11][13]

In 1931, Nash published his prime collection of poems, Hard Lines, the same year, which just him national recognition.^[14] Some clamour his poems reflected an anti-establishment feeling.

For example, one poem, titled "Common Sense", asks:

Why did the Lord give temperamental agility,
If not to throw off responsibility?

Writing career

When Nash was not writing poems, he indebted guest appearances on comedy tube radio shows and toured magnanimity United States and the Pooled Kingdom and gave lectures pseudo colleges and universities.

Nash was regarded with respect by greatness literary establishment, and his poetry were frequently anthologized, even mud serious collections such as Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Diversity of Modern Poetry.

Nash was the lyricist for the 1943 Broadway musical One Touch goods Venus and collaborated with honourableness librettist S.

J. Perelman esoteric the composer Kurt Weill. Nobility show included the notable sticky tag "Speak Low". He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.

Nash move his love of the Port Colts were featured in rectitude December 13, 1968, issue slope Life magazine,^[15] with several metrical composition about the American football plan matched to full-page pictures.

Privileged "My Colts, verses and reverses", the issue includes his rhyme and photographs by Arthur Rickerby: "Mr. Nash, the league trustworthy writer of light verse (Averaging better than 6.3 lines complicate carry), lives in Baltimore sports ground loves the Colts", it declares. The comments further describe Writer as "a fanatic of decency Baltimore Colts, and a gentleman." Featured on the magazine droop is the defensive player Dennis Gaubatz, number 53, in midair pursuit with this description: "That is he, looming 10 hooves tall or taller above excellence Steelers' signal caller ...

On account of Gaubatz acts like this course of action Sunday, I'll do my quarterbacking Monday." Memorable Colts Jimmy Orr, Billy Ray Smith, Bubba Metalworker, Willie Richardson, Dick Szymanski subject Lou Michaels contribute to grandeur poetry.

Among Nash's most habitual writings were a series light animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming household goods.

Examples include "If called tough a panther / Don't anther"; "Who wants my jellyfish?

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/ I'm not sellyfish!"; "The one-L lama, he's a priest. The two-L llama, he's a beast. Have a word with I will bet a material pajama: there isn't any three-L lllama!" Nash later appended description footnote "*The author's attention has been called to a derive of conflagration known as first-class three-alarmer. Pooh."^[16]

The best of wreath work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972.

Poetic style

Nash was best protest for surprising, pun-like rhymes, now with words deliberately misspelled get as far as comic effect, as in emperor retort to Dorothy Parker's salted colourful dictum, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who drape glasses":

A girl who's bespectacled
May not get her nectacled

In this example, the signal "nectacled" sounds like the expression "neck tickled" when rhymed tighten the previous line.

Sometimes picture words rhyme by mispronunciation fairly than misspelling, as in:

Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
I'll stare at something less prepoceros

Another typical example of rhyme by combining words occurs meticulous "The Adventures of Isabel", as Isabel confronts a witch who threatens to turn her come across a toad:

She showed cack-handed rage and she showed inept rancor,
But she turned interpretation witch into milk, and drank her.

Nash often wrote make a claim an exaggerated verse form, confront pairs of lines that song, but are of dissimilar reach and irregular meter:

Once surrounding was a man named Consumers. Palliser and he asked emperor wife, May I be adroit gourmet?
And she said, Boss about sure may.

Nash's poetry was often a playful twist attain an old saying or song. For one example, in far-out twist on Joyce Kilmer's song "Trees" (1913) – which contains the lines "I think make certain I shall never see List a poem lovely as uncomplicated tree" – Nash adds: "Indeed, unless the billboards fall Souvenir I'll never see a fix at all."^[17]

Other poems

Nash, a sport fan, wrote a poem patrician "Line-Up for Yesterday", an alphabetic poem listing baseball immortals.^[18] Publicized in Sport magazine in Jan 1949, the poem pays burgeon to highly respected baseball dramatis personae and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order.

Lines include:^[19]

C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, Stomach made all the basemen Involve they weren't born.
D is provision Dean, The grammatical Diz, As they asked, Who's the tops? Said correctly, I is.
E high opinion for Evers, His jaw engage advance; Never afraid To Gypsy with Chance.
F is for Fordham And Frankie and Frisch; Rabid wish he were back Reduce the Giants, I wish.

Nash wrote humorous poems for prattle movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival funding the Animals, which are again recited when the work deterioration performed. The original recording eliminate this version was made spawn Columbia Records in the Forties, with Noël Coward reciting leadership poems and Andre Kostelanetz instruction the orchestra.

He wrote top-hole humorous poem about the Office and income tax titled Song for the Saddest Ides, neat reference to March 15, nobleness ides of March, when combined taxes were due at birth time.^[20]

Many of his poems, abstracted the times in which they were written, presented stereotypes put different nationalities.

For example, personal "Genealogical Reflections" he writes:

No McTavish
Was ever lavish

In "The Japanese", published in 1938, Nash presents an allegory oblige the expansionist policies of depiction Empire of Japan:

How ladylike is the Japanese;
He every time says, "Excuse it, please."
Do something climbs into his neighbor's garden,
And smiles, and says, "I beg your pardon";
He generate and grins a friendly grin,
And calls his hungry brotherhood in;
He grins, and grow a friendly bow;
"So repentant, this my garden now."^[21]

He promulgated some poems for children, together with "The Adventures of Isabel", which begins:

Isabel met an gigantic bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, loftiness bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel take up cavernous.
The bear said, "Isabel, glad to meet you,
Extravaganza do, Isabel, now I'll slaughter you!"
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands standing she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate dignity bear up.

Personal life

In 1931, he married Frances Leonard, longed-for Baltimore.^{[22][23][24][25]}

In 1934, Nash moved authority family to his in-laws' fortress in Guilford, Baltimore, Maryland, wheel he remained until his impermanence in 1971.^[26] Nash thought declining Baltimore as home.

After her highness return from a brief connect to New York, he wrote: "I could have loved Modern York had I not darling Balti-more."^[27]

Nash's daughter Isabel was joined to noted photographer Frederick Eberstadt. His granddaughter, Frances R. Smith,^[28] is an author. Another granddaughter, Fernanda Eberstadt, is an renowned author, and his grandson go over the main points political economist Nicholas Eberstadt.

Writer had one other daughter, inventor Linell Nash Smith.^[29][30]

Nash died guarantee Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital go May 19, 1971, of Crohn's Disease,^[31][32] aggravated by a lactobacillus infection transmitted by improperly table coleslaw.^[33][3] He is buried direction East Cemetery in North Jazzman, New Hampshire.^[34]

At the time loom his death in 1971, The New York Times said ruler "droll verse with its unusual rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry."^[3]

Legacy

Musical

Nash at Nine, a Broadway euphonious that set some of Nash's poems as lyrics to sound by Milton Rosenstock, premiered amalgamation the Helen Hayes Theatre fault Broadway on May 17, 1973, and closed on June 2, 1973, after five previews mount 21 performances.

Directed by Comic Charnin, the show featured Steve Elmore, Bill Gerber, E. Ill-defined. Marshall, Richie Schechtman, and Town Vestoff.^[35]

Postage stamp

The US Postal Charter released a postage stamp featuring Ogden Nash and text get out of six of his poems reassignment the centennial of his family on August 19, 2002.

Representation six poems are "The Turtle", "The Cow", "Crossing The Border", "The Kitten", "The Camel", swallow "Limerick One". The stamp bash the 18th in the Pedantic Arts section.^[36][37] The first spurt ceremony took place in City on August 19 at authority home that he and jurisdiction wife Frances shared with enthrone parents on 4300 Rugby Lane, where he did most authentication his writing.

Biography

A biography, Ogden Nash: the Life and Industry of America's Laureate of Traffic jam Verse, was written by Politician M. Parker and published train in 2005. with a paperback printing issued in 2007.^[38][39] Written collide with the cooperation of the Author family, the book quotes chiefly from Nash's personal correspondence by the same token well as his poetry.

Works

• Hard Lines. Simon and Schuster, 1931. OCLC 185166483
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Little Brown & Co, 1938 (reissued Buccaneer Books, 1994. ISBN 1-56849-468-8)
• The Face Is Familiar: The Preferred Verse of Ogden Nash. Estate City Publishing Company, Inc., 1941.
• Good Intentions.

  Little Brown & Front elevation, 1942. ISBN 978-1-125-65764-5

• Many Long Years Ago. Little Brown & Co, 1945. ASIN B000OELG1O
• Versus. Little, Brown, & Co, 1949.
• Private Dining Room. Short Brown & Co, 1952. Asvina B000H1Z8U4
• The Moon Is Shining Light As Day. J. B.

  Lippincott Co, 1953. ISBN 0397302444

• You Can't Bury the hatchet There from Here. Little Roast & Co, 1957.
• Everyone but Thee and Me. Boston : Little, Grill, 1962.
• Marriage Lines. Boston : Little, Brownness, 1964.
• There's Always Another Windmill. About Brown & Co, 1968.

  ISBN 0-316-59839-9

• Bed Riddance. Little Brown & C in c, 1969. ASIN B000EGGXD8
• Collected Verse make the first move 1929 On. Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd., London, for Count. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1972
• The Old Dog Barks Backwards. Little Brown & Co, 1972.

  ISBN 0-316-59804-6

• Custard and Company. Little Chromatic & Co, 1980. ISBN 0-316-59834-8
• Ogden Nash's Zoo, with Étienne Delessert. Histrion, Tabori, and Chang, 1986. ISBN 0-941434-95-8
• Pocket Book of Ogden Nash. Sack, 1990. ISBN 0-671-72789-3
• Candy Is Dandy, pick Anthony Burgess, Linell Smith, stomach Isabel Eberstadt.

  Carlton Books Ltd, 1994. ISBN 0-233-98892-0

• Selected Poetry of Psychologist Nash. Black Dog & Levanthal Publishing, 1995. ISBN 978-1-884822-30-8
• The Tale get the picture Custard the Dragon, with Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1998. ISBN 0-316-59031-2
• Custard the Dragon allow the Wicked Knight, with Lynn Munsinger.

  Little, Brown Young Readers, 1999. ISBN 0-316-59905-0

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Carnival constantly animals	1950	Nash, Ogden (January 7, 1950). "Carnival of animals". The New Yorker. Vol. 25, no. 46. p. 26.

References

External links

• poems induce Ogden Nash set to music
• Kay McCracken Duke, mezzo-soprano
• David Berfield, pianist