NASH, OGDEN

1902–71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was popular for a wide assortment of immensely quotable verses, ranging from urbane satire to absurdity in their subject and rhyme. He also wrote plays and children's books. His collections include Hard Lines (1931), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), Selected Verse (1946), Versus (1949), The Private Dining Room (1953), You Can't Get There from Here (1957), Verses From 1929 On (1959), Everyone But Thee and Me (1962), and Bed Riddance (1970).

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books on: Nash Ogden  - 1371 results

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Hard Lines
Book by Ogden M. Nash, Soglow; Simon and Schuster, 1931
Subjects: Poetry
Ogden Nash HARD LINES Illustrated by Soglow...RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY OGDEN NASH PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC...name to Nashville, Tennessee. So much, as OGDEN NASH would say, for Reflections Genealogical...
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One Touch of Venus
Book by S. J. Perelman, Ogden Nash; Little, Brown and Company, 1944
Subjects: Drama
...TOUCH OF VENUS S. J. PERELMAN AND OGDEN NASH ONE TOUCH OF VENUS BOSTON...1943, 1944 BY S. J. PERELMAN AND OGDEN NASH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE...Avenue, New York, N. Y., Agent for Ogden Nash . LYRICS COPYRIGHT MCMXLIII BY...
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The Language of Humour
Book by Walter Nash; Longman, 1985
Subjects: Comic, The, English Language--Style, English Wit And Humor--History And Criticism, Style, Literary
...poem. And both -- the products of Ogden Nash and Ted Hughes, of Perelman and...at least under the hand of Walter Nash, the revelations of analysis are...for poem "England Expects" by Ogden Nash from I Wouldnt have Missed It...
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The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War
Book by Gerald D. Nash; Indiana University Press, 1985
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Economic Aspects--West (U.S.), World War, 1939-1945--Social Aspects--West (U.S.)
...installation, while the others were huge supply depots and repair and maintenance bases. They included the Ogden Arsenal, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden Defense Depot, Deseret Chemical Depot, Tooele Army Depot, Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, Camp W...
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Researching Western History: Topics in the Twentieth Century
Book by Gerald D. Nash, Richard W. Etulain; University of New Mexico Press, 1997
Subjects: West (U.S.)--History--1890-1945--Historiography, West (U.S.)--History--1890-1945--Research, West (U.S.)--History--1945---Historiography, West (U.S.)--History--1945---Research
...McArthur and Bruce L. Wech, General Technical Report INT-200 Ogden, Utah: Intermountain Research Station, 1986 , 303-11...University Press of Kentucky, 1973 , 129-52; Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind , rev. ed. New Haven...
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journal articles on: Nash Ogden  - 40 results

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World Religions and Clean Water Laws
Journal article by Daryl Fisher-Ogden, Shelley Ross Saxer; Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol. 17, 2006
Subjects: Environmental degradation--Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental ethics--Influence, Religions--Influence, Water law--Evaluation
...LEE L. REV. 11, 29 (2000) (discussing the modern ideal of pure wilderness and noting that "environmental historian Roderick Nash attributes the beginning of the wilderness movement largely to Aldo Leopold"). (15.) See id. at 25 (noting that "Muirs affection...
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Contemporary Childcare Issues Facing Colleges and Universities
Journal article by Marybeth Kyle, William J. Campion, William R. Ogden; College Student Journal, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Campus-based child care--Research, Child care--Research, Universities and colleges--Social aspects
...WILLIAM J. CAMPION , WILLIAM R. OGDEN Although childcare/child...the first 18 months of life (Nash, 1997). Childcare centers...Yearbook, Washington, D.C., CDF. Nash, J.M. (1997) "Fertile Minds...Community College WILLIAM R. OGDEN Professor of Secondary Higher...
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Hemingway and the Poets
Journal article by Ron Mcfarland; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 20, 2001
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Novelists--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Kenneth Koch, Robert Penn Warren, and Ai. The indefatigable Ogden Nash even had his day with Hemingway in "Roll On, Thou Deep...Poetry." Complete Poems. New York: Penguin, 1981: 267. Nash, Ogden. Versus. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. Payne, Basil...
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"Miss la La's" Teeth: Reflections on Degas and "Race"
Journal article by Marilyn R. Brown; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Degas, Edgar--Criticism and interpretation, Degas, Edgar--Works, French painters--Criticism and interpretation, French painters--Works, Miss La La (Painting)--Criticism and interpretation, Painters, French--Criticism and interpretation, Painters, French--Works
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A Beautiful Mend: A Game Theoretical Analysis of the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine
Journal article by Maxwell L. Stearns; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Game theory--Analysis, Interstate commerce--Models
...doctrine necessarily begins with Gibbons v. Ogden. (41) The dispute between Chief Justice...and Livingston, who in turn granted it to Ogden. Gibbons claimed a competing right to operate...pro-commerce strategies in a multiple Nash equilibrium game. This occurs when a group...
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magazine articles on: Nash Ogden  - 37 results

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Notorious Trifler: For Ogden Nash, Humor Was "A Shield, a Weapon, a Survival Kit." Herewith a Small Selection, Previously Unpublished
Magazine article by Gary Cohen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, July 2002
Subjects: American poetry, Nash, Ogden
Notorious Trifler: For Ogden Nash, Humor Was "A Shield, a Weapon, a...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ogden Nash, the idiosyncratic American master...our predicament." TWO POEMS by Ogden Nash UNTITLED I envy oft my faithful...
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A Notorious Trifler: For Ogden Nash, Humor Was "A Shield, a Weapon, a Survival Kit." Herewith a Small Selection, Previously Unpublished
Magazine article by Gary Cohen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, July 2002
Subjects: Humorous poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Light verse--Criticism and interpretation, Nash, Ogden--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
A Notorious Trifler: For Ogden Nash, Humor Was "A Shield, a...anniversary of the birth of Ogden Nash, the idiosyncratic American...with that last assessment, Nash had friends and fellow writers...letter to his daughter, "Ogden Nashs poems are not careless...
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Sweet Success: Candy's Handy (with a Nod to Ogden Nash)
Magazine article by Haidee E. Allerton; T&D, Vol. 56, June 2002
Subjects: Age discrimination--Humor and anecdotes, Customer relations, Etiquette--Social aspects, Interpersonal communication--Social aspects, Waiters--Social aspects, Waitpersons--Social aspects
Sweet Success: Candys Handy (with a Nod to Ogden Nash). by Haidee E. Allerton If I point out that waitpersons dont always get the tip they deserve, I should be on safe...
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The Soul of Wit
Magazine article by Alexandra Mullen; New Criterion, Vol. 23, June 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse (Book)--Book reviews
...Alexandra Mullen Douglas M. Parker Ogden Nash: The Life Work of Americas Laureate...For me, at any rate, the name "Ogden Nash" brings a smile to the lips and an...gt; The big difference between Nash and, say, Housman and Dylan Thomas...
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The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
Magazine article by David Yezzi; New Criterion, Vol. 16, February 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. (Book)--Reviews
...matter outside her human terrors and desire and meanness--outside, that is, her own humanity, much like a classy Ogden Nash" Ogden Nash is brandished in this context, much the way the infamous Ambrose "Namby-Pamby" Philips sometimes is, as a synonym...
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newspaper articles on: Nash Ogden  - 52 results

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Nation's First Poet, a Light Verse Laureate
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2005
Subjects: Nash, Ogden
...17th-century Puritan wife and mother, and Ogden Nash, the irreverent 20th-century male...critic Clifton Fadiman, the poet Ogden Nash "works under two disadvantages: he...new biography by Douglas M. Parker, Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of Americas Laureate...
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Viewpoint: My Shout
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 11, 2007
...TAYLOR WHEN the American satirist Ogden Nash remarked that each New Year was the...breaking news rammed home the fact that Nash was indeed right. AD2007, like most...the quagmire was Saddam himself. How Nash would have loved that irony. Capital...
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When Billboards Fall
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 5, 2006
Subjects: Billboards
...the billboards fall, Ill never see a tree at all." - Ogden Nash (1902-1971) THERE were some whod never see anything at...would be nice if aesthetics were coupled with safety as Ogden Nash wistfully proposed. This would not only apply to billboards...
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History Lesson for Lender That Failed to Keep Illusion Afloat
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 18, 2007
Subjects: Banks (Finance)
...Byline: CHRISTOPHER FILDES BANKERS dwell in marble halls, which they do to encourage deposits anddiscourage withdrawals. Ogden Nash, who said so, was right. They need to lookrich and they need to look safe. Once the depositors are queuing round theblock...
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History Lesson for Lender That Failed to Keep Illusion Afloat
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 18, 2007
Subjects: Banks (Finance)
...Byline: CHRISTOPHER FILDES BANKERS dwell in marble halls, which they do to encourage deposits anddiscourage withdrawals. Ogden Nash, who said so, was right. They need to lookrich and they need to look safe. Once the depositors are queuing round theblock...
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encyclopedia articles on: Nash Ogden  - 4 results

 
 
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Nash, Ogden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
NASH, OGDEN 1902 71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was popular...several decades his work appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine. Nash also wrote plays, e.g., One Touch of Venus (1943) in collaboration with...
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Epigram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...excelled in the form. Poets of the 20th cent. who are noted for their epigrams include Yeats, Pound, Roy Campbell, and Ogden Nash. One of the most brilliant of prose epigrammatists was Oscar Wilde. His works are studded with epigrams, such as "I can...
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Weill, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Holiday (1938; written with Maxwell Anderson ), Lady in the Dark (1941), and One Touch of Venus (1943; written with Ogden Nash ). In these works Weill employed with great facility advanced techniques, including multiple rhythms and polytonality...
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Parody
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Garland (1912) wickedly parodies such authors as Kipling, Conrad, and Henry James. Noted 20th-century parodists include Ogden Nash, S. J. Perelman, Robert Benchley, James Thurber, E. B. White, and Woody Allen. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...


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