The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash
A Biography
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Product details:
- Publisher Taylor Trade Publishing
- Date of Publication 5 April 2000
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781568331270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x157x18 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 BW Photos Illustrations, unspecified 0
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Short description:
Ogden Nash was a rare poet: one who celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity. He struggled his whole career with comparisons to ?serious? poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that were the lifeblood to his style of writing. In addition to his writing, Nash pursued publishing, screenwriting, and a rigorous lecture circuit. This book explores Ogden Nash?s life, his career, and the invaluable amount of work he left behind?works we read and cherish today.
MoreLong description:
Ogden Nash was a rare poet. He celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity: husbands and wives at work, children at play, a society in motion. He studied popular culture with a penetrating eye and wrote about America, its icons, habits, and affectations with humor and levity. He struggled with comparisons to ?serious? poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that Nash found crucial to his style of writing. His witty, insightful, and graceful vignettes captured those moments in life that defy heavy-handed treatment.
Nash did not live out the stereotype of the aloof poet-recluse. In addition to his writing, Nash pursued publishing, screenwriting, and a rigorous lecture circuit. This self-styled poet of wide appeal appeared in newspapers and magazines found in homes across the country, accessible publications such as Life, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated, Reader?s Digest, and McCall?s. At a time when children?s literature meant Winnie-the-Pooh, Nash produced verses for and about young people that amused, educated, and more important, didn?t pander or lecture. These poems and collections, including Custard the Dragon, The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses, A Boy Is a Boy, and Girls Are Silly, were classics of the genre.
Nash left behind an invaluable body of work: charming, clever, and utterly unique.
