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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Hard Lines
Book by Ogden M. Nash, Soglow; Simon and Schuster, 1931
Subjects: Poetry
A Note About the Author MR. NASH saw the light of day in 1902 at Rye, New...and the latters brother, General Francis Nash, gave his 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
COPYRIGHT 1943, 1944 BY S. J. PERELMAN AND OGDEN NASH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE...347 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y., Agent for Ogden Nash . LYRICS COPYRIGHT MCMXLIII BY CHAPPELL CO., INC...
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Health Psychology: A Textbook
Book by Jane Ogden; Open University Press, 2007
Subjects: Clinical Health Psychology
...research indicates that motherhood has a negative impact upon most of the psychological factors measured. For example, Feldman and Nash (1984) reported that, while expectant parents are optimistic and excited about the birth of their first child, parenthood...
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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
...The Bodley Head: London. 21 Munro H. H. Saki 1981 edn The Best of Saki , Tom Sharpe ed. , Picador: London. 22 Nash Ogden 1952 The Face is Familiar , J.M. Dent: London 23 Rees Nigel 1978 Quote-Unquote , George Allen and Unwin: London...
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Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature
Book by Cristopher Nash; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Discourse Analysis, Narrative
...which is made known to us by one or more of our five senses (Ogden 1951:114). The theory of paraphrase is more interesting...theory of the real. It has been hailed, notably by C.K. Ogden and John Wisdom (and more recently by Ross Harrison), as...
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journal articles on: Nash Ogden  - 52 results

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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 development...eliminated in the first 18 months of life (Nash, 1997). Childcare centers can provide...Paso Community College WILLIAM R. OGDEN Professor of Secondary Higher Education...
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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
World Religions and Clean Water Laws. by Daryl Fisher-Ogden , Shelley Ross Saxer It is also the breath, along with water...wilderness and noting that "environmental historian Roderick Nash attributes the beginning of the wilderness movement largely...
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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.
...Warren, and Ai. The indefatigable Ogden Nash even had his day with Hemingway in...Roll!" (from Versus, 1949). Nash draws an epigraph for his poem from...New York: Penguin, 1981: 267. Nash, Ogden. Versus. Boston: Little, Brown...
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Bedside Manners in Dorothy Parker's "Lady with a Lamp" and Kay Boyle's My Next Bride
Journal article by Meg Gillette; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Abortion--Portrayals, Boyle, Kay--Works, Lady with a Lamp (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, My Next Bride (Fictional work)--Criticism and interpretation, Parker, Dorothy--Works, Women poets--Works
...invite readers self-reflection. Ogden Nash, reviewing After Such Pleasures...hard to shake. Notes (1) Donald Ogden Stewart, By a Stroke of Luck! An...Review, June 1933, 153. (19) Ogden Nash, "The Pleasure Is Ours," review...
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What Kind of Funeral? Identifying and Resolving Family Conflicts
Journal article by Carla J. Sofka; Generations, Vol. 28, 2004
Subjects: Conflicts, Families & family life, Funerals
...those to whom one is personally close. Being a fan of Ogden Nash, I wondered if he had any words of wisdom to offer to...If ones own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. - Ogden Nash, "Family Court" "Fun" in the same discussion as...
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magazine articles on: Nash Ogden  - 51 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...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 pup...
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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
...Notorious Trifler: For Ogden Nash, Humor Was "A Shield...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 ground...
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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
...Soul of Wit. by Alexandra Mullen Douglas M. Parker Ogden Nash: The Life Work of Americas Laureate of Light Verse...336 pages, $27.50 For me, at any rate, the name "Ogden Nash" brings a smile to the lips and an itch to quote. Some...
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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
...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...
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Nation's First Poet, a Light Verse Laureate
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2005
Subjects: Nash, Ogden
...century Puritan wife and mother, and Ogden Nash, the irreverent 20th-century male...critic Clifton Fadiman, the poet Ogden Nash "works under two disadvantages...biography by Douglas M. Parker, Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of Americas Laureate...
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DVD RELEASES; Films
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), July 18, 2010
...have 10 copies to give away on DVD. For a chance, what is the name of the town where the movie is set? 1 Ogden Marsh 2 Ogden Nash 3 Ogden WIN Shank SHANK, starring Colin Salmon, takes a futuristic look at what life could be like for Britains...
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Steak and Ale on the Menu
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 9, 2009
Subjects: Organic farming
...Menu. Byline: ALASTAIR GILMOUR IT was American poet Ogden Nash who wrote: "The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end...problem around Otterburn and Steve Ramshaws Wagyu herd. As Ogden Nash might have written: "Beer, the best drink known to...
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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...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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The Limerick Reclaimed; an Art Form Rescued from Its Sordid Past
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 11, 2006
...writers including Edward Lear, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ogden Nash, Bertrand Russell and Lyn Nofziger, there are also...choose one, though just about any of the limericks from Ogden Nash are tops. And, I was delighted to find four limericks...
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encyclopedia articles on: Nash Ogden  - 4 results

 
 
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Nash, Ogden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NASH, OGDEN 1902 71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was...several decades his work appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine. Nash also wrote plays, e.g., One Touch of Venus (1943) in collaboration...
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Weill, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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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Epigram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Parody
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...


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