The poet Ogden Nash was born upstate New ... A prolific poet best known for his light, often humorous poems, Nash also wrote extensively about his family, nature and his summers on the beach.

The high quantity of light verse in The New Yorker of yore was unarguably made easy to generate by the existence of one genius of the form, [Ogden Nash](http://www ...

The book’s introduction is by poet Ogden Nash, whose name is attributed to more than 500 humorous poems, including “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” When I spotted Nash’s poem about ...

The poetry of Ogden Nash, however, not only lets readers guiltlessly ... but resulted in little benefit to mankind because they went against the nature of man. He’s also making a sneaky comment ...

by Ogden Nash, from 1958. As Nash’s nimble work gained in popularity, many of his verses, including the animal poems and “Reflections on Ice-Breaking,” became part of the cultural landscape.

NORTH HAMPTON — Happiness is having a scratch for every itch, wrote Ogden Nash. Anyone with an itch to learn more about the celebrated American poet and humorist was invited stop by the library ...

Douglas Parker reminds us, showing Ogden Nash in three dimensions, all of them as engaging as his poetry.

One of the very few exceptions to that rule was the American master of light verse, Ogden Nash (1902-71), whose poems were immensely popular in the English-speaking world from the day he started ...

Happy birthday to poet Ogden Nash, known for his ability ... In 1958, a reporter asked Nash if he thought any of his poetry had done anything to help the human race. Nash smiled and recited ...

Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died Wednesday of Myelodysplasia ... And it inspired some of Mr. Nash’s finest poems, some of which were in his wife’s bedside table at ...

When the Ogden Nash stamp is issued on August 19 ... to get complaints about "sex," which is included in the six Nash poems in the background of the design: "The Turtle," "The Cow," "Crossing ...