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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg/220px-Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg/330px-Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg/440px-Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg 2x" data-file-width="743" data-file-height="921" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Nash and <a href="/wiki/Dagmar_(actress)" title="Dagmar (actress)">Dagmar</a> from the television game show <i><a href="/wiki/Masquerade_Party" title="Masquerade Party">Masquerade Party</a></i>, 1955</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Frederic Ogden Nash</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1902-08-19</span>)</span>August 19, 1902<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Rye,_New_York" title="Rye, New York">Rye</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 19, 1971<span style="display:none">(1971-05-19)</span> (aged 68)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, Maryland, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">East Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/North_Hampton,_New_Hampshire" title="North Hampton, New Hampshire">North Hampton, New Hampshire</a><sup id="cite_ref-poets.org/graves_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poets.org/graves-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-blogdennash/nash-ional-treasure_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blogdennash/nash-ional-treasure-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (for 1 year)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Poet</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Frances Leonard</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fernanda_Eberstadt" title="Fernanda Eberstadt">Fernanda Eberstadt</a> (granddaughter)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Eberstadt" title="Nicholas Eberstadt">Nicholas Eberstadt</a> (grandson)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Frederic Ogden Nash</b> (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his <a href="/wiki/Light_poetry" title="Light poetry">light verse</a>, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional <a href="/wiki/Rhyme" title="Rhyme">rhyming schemes</a>, he was declared by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTobit_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nash was born on August 19, 1902, in <a href="/wiki/Rye,_New_York" title="Rye, New York">Rye</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, on Milton Point,<sup id="cite_ref-myrye/nash-native-son_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myrye/nash-native-son-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash.<sup id="cite_ref-Lehman2006_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lehman2006-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nash was baptized at Christ's Church.<sup id="cite_ref-myrye/nash-native-son_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myrye/nash-native-son-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At two years old, his family had a house called "Ramaqua", on 50 acres near <a href="/wiki/Port_Chester" class="mw-redirect" title="Port Chester">Port Chester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-myrye/nash-native-son_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myrye/nash-native-son-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father owned and operated a <a href="/wiki/Turpentine" title="Turpentine">turpentine</a> company.<sup id="cite_ref-blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because of business obligations, the family often relocated. Nash was descended from <a href="/wiki/Abner_Nash" title="Abner Nash">Abner Nash</a>, an early governor of North Carolina. The city of <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, was named after Abner's brother, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Nash" title="Francis Nash">Francis</a>, a Revolutionary War general.<sup id="cite_ref-NCHistory_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout his life, Nash loved to rhyme. "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old", he stated in a 1958 news interview.<sup id="cite_ref-APQuote_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APQuote-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist but admitted that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task.<sup id="cite_ref-APQuote_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APQuote-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His family lived briefly in <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>, in a carriage house owned by <a href="/wiki/Juliette_Gordon_Low" title="Juliette Gordon Low">Juliette Gordon Low</a>, the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA" title="Girl Scouts of the USA">Girl Scouts of the USA</a>. He wrote a poem about <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Low_House" title="Andrew Low House">Mrs. Low's House</a>. After graduating from <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_School_(Rhode_Island)" title="St. George's School (Rhode Island)">St. George's School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newport_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport County, Rhode Island">Newport County, Rhode Island</a>, Nash entered <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in 1920, only to drop out a year later. </p><p>He taught at St. George's for one year and then returned to New York.<sup id="cite_ref-georev_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georev-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, he took up selling bonds about which Nash reportedly quipped, "Came to New York to make my fortune as a bond salesman and in two years sold one bond—to my godmother.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTobit_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, I saw lots of good movies."<sup id="cite_ref-georev_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georev-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nash then took a position as a writer of the <a href="/wiki/Streetcar" class="mw-redirect" title="Streetcar">streetcar</a> card ads for <a href="/wiki/Barron_Collier" title="Barron Collier">Barron Collier</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-georev_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georev-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a company that had employed <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>, another resident of <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> (Nash's permanent home). While working as an editor at <a href="/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday</a>, he submitted some short rhymes to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. The editor <a href="/wiki/Harold_Ross" title="Harold Ross">Harold Ross</a> wrote Nash to ask for more: "They are about the most original stuff we have had lately."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nash spent three months in 1931 working on the editorial staff for <i>The New Yorker</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-georev_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georev-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hasley_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hasley-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1931, Nash published his first collection of poems, <i>Hard Lines</i>, the same year, which earned him national recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-CbsStamp_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CbsStamp-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of his poems reflected an anti-establishment feeling. For example, one verse, titled "Common Sense", asks: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Why did the Lord give us agility,<br /> If not to evade responsibility? </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_career">Writing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Writing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles,_1949.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg/220px-Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg/330px-Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg/440px-Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles%2C_1949.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4839" data-file-height="4936" /></a><figcaption>Nash at <a href="/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Millennium Biltmore Hotel">Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles</a>, in 1949</figcaption></figure> <p>When Nash was not writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom and gave lectures at colleges and universities. </p><p>Nash was regarded with respect by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized, even in serious collections such as <a href="/wiki/Selden_Rodman" title="Selden Rodman">Selden Rodman</a>'s 1946 <i>A New Anthology of Modern Poetry</i>. </p><p>Nash was the lyricist for the 1943 Broadway musical <i><a href="/wiki/One_Touch_of_Venus" title="One Touch of Venus">One Touch of Venus</a></i> and collaborated with the librettist <a href="/wiki/S._J._Perelman" title="S. J. Perelman">S. J. Perelman</a> and the composer <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Weill" title="Kurt Weill">Kurt Weill</a>. The show included the notable song "<a href="/wiki/Speak_Low" title="Speak Low">Speak Low</a>". He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue <i><a href="/wiki/Two%27s_Company_(musical)" title="Two's Company (musical)">Two's Company</a></i>. </p><p>Nash and his love of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Indianapolis_Colts" title="History of the Indianapolis Colts">Baltimore Colts</a> were featured in the December 13, 1968, issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with several poems about the <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> team matched to full-page pictures. Entitled "My Colts, verses and reverses", the issue includes his poems and photographs by Arthur Rickerby: "Mr. Nash, the league leading writer of light verse (Averaging better than 6.3 lines per carry), lives in Baltimore and loves the Colts", it declares. The comments further describe Nash as "a fanatic of the Baltimore Colts, and a gentleman." Featured on the magazine cover is the defensive player <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Gaubatz" title="Dennis Gaubatz">Dennis Gaubatz</a>, number 53, in midair pursuit with this description: "That is he, looming 10 feet tall or taller above the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Steelers</a>' signal caller ... Since Gaubatz acts like this on Sunday, I'll do my quarterbacking Monday." Memorable Colts <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Orr" title="Jimmy Orr">Jimmy Orr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Ray_Smith_Sr." title="Billy Ray Smith Sr.">Billy Ray Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bubba_Smith" title="Bubba Smith">Bubba Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Richardson" title="Willie Richardson">Willie Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Szymanski" title="Dick Szymanski">Dick Szymanski</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lou_Michaels" title="Lou Michaels">Lou Michaels</a> contribute to the poetry. </p><p>Among Nash's most popular writings were a series of animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming devices. Examples include "If called by a panther / Don't anther"; "Who wants my jellyfish? / I'm not sellyfish!"; "The one-L lama, he's a priest. The two-L llama, he's a beast. And I will bet a silk pajama: there isn't any three-L lllama!" Nash later appended the footnote "*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a <a href="/wiki/Multiple-alarm_fire" title="Multiple-alarm fire">three-alarmer</a>. Pooh."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poetic_style">Poetic style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Poetic style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nash was best known for surprising, <a href="/wiki/Pun" title="Pun">pun</a>-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker">Dorothy Parker</a>'s humorous dictum, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses": </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>A girl who's bespectacled<br /> May not get her nectacled </p> </div></blockquote> <p>In this example, the word "nectacled" sounds like the phrase "neck tickled" when rhymed with the previous line. </p><p>Sometimes the words rhyme by mispronunciation rather than misspelling, as in: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,<br /> I'll stare at something less prepoceros </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Another typical example of rhyming by combining words occurs in "The Adventures of Isabel", when Isabel confronts a witch who threatens to turn her into a toad: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>She showed no rage and she showed no rancor,<br /> But she turned the witch into milk, and drank her. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Nash often wrote in an exaggerated verse form, with pairs of lines that rhyme, but are of dissimilar length and irregular meter: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Once there was a man named Mr. Palliser and he asked his wife, May I be a gourmet?<br /> And she said, You sure may. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem. For one example, in a twist on <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Kilmer" title="Joyce Kilmer">Joyce Kilmer</a>'s poem <a href="/wiki/Trees_(poem)" title="Trees (poem)">"Trees"</a> (1913) – which contains the lines "I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree" – Nash adds: "Indeed, unless the <a href="/wiki/Billboard" title="Billboard">billboards</a> fall / I'll never see a tree at all."<sup id="cite_ref-facefamiliar_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-facefamiliar-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_poems">Other poems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nash, a <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> fan, wrote a poem titled "<a href="/wiki/Line-Up_for_Yesterday" title="Line-Up for Yesterday">Line-Up for Yesterday</a>", an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Published in <a href="/wiki/Sport_(US_magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport (US magazine)"><i>Sport</i></a> magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to highly respected baseball players and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Lines include:<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p><u>C</u> is for <a href="/wiki/Ty_Cobb" title="Ty Cobb">Cobb</a>, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren't born.<br /> <u>D</u> is for <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dean</a>, The grammatical Diz, When they asked, Who's the tops? Said correctly, I is.<br /> <u>E</u> is for <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Evers" title="Johnny Evers">Evers</a>, His jaw in advance; Never afraid To <a href="/wiki/Joe_Tinker" title="Joe Tinker">Tinker</a> with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Chance" title="Frank Chance">Chance</a>.<br /> <u>F</u> is for <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Frisch" title="Frankie Frisch">Fordham</a> And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back With the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants#New_York_Giants_history" title="San Francisco Giants">Giants</a>, I wish. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</a> orchestral suite <i><a href="/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals" title="The Carnival of the Animals">The Carnival of the Animals</a></i>, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original recording of this version was made by <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a> in the 1940s, with <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> reciting the poems and <a href="/wiki/Andre_Kostelanetz" title="Andre Kostelanetz">Andre Kostelanetz</a> conducting the orchestra. </p><p>He wrote a humorous poem about the <a href="/wiki/IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="IRS">IRS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">income tax</a> titled <i>Song for the Saddest Ides</i>, a reference to March 15, the <a href="/wiki/Ides_(calendar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ides (calendar)">ides</a> of March, when federal taxes were due at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-Dew_1946_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dew_1946-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of his poems, reflecting the times in which they were written, presented <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_stereotype" title="Ethnic stereotype">stereotypes</a> of different nationalities. For example, in "Genealogical Reflections" he writes: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>No McTavish<br /> Was ever lavish </p> </div></blockquote> <p>In "The Japanese", published in 1938, Nash presents an allegory for the expansionist policies of the Empire of Japan: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>How courteous is the Japanese;<br /> He always says, "Excuse it, please."<br /> He climbs into his neighbor's garden,<br /> And smiles, and says, "I beg your pardon";<br /> He bows and grins a friendly grin,<br /> And calls his hungry family in;<br /> He grins, and bows a friendly bow;<br /> "So sorry, this my garden now."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>He published some poems for children, including "The Adventures of Isabel", which begins: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Isabel met an enormous bear,<br /> Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;<br /> The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,<br /> The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.<br /> The bear said, "Isabel, glad to meet you,<br /> How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!"<br /> Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.<br /> Isabel didn't scream or scurry.<br /> She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,<br /> Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up. </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1931, he married Frances Leonard, of Baltimore.<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune/baltimore-photogallery_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotribune/baltimore-photogallery-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltimoreauthors/ogdennash_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoreauthors/ogdennash-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltimoresun/1994-06-17-Frances_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoresun/1994-06-17-Frances-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1934, Nash moved his family to his in-laws' mansion in <a href="/wiki/Guilford,_Baltimore" title="Guilford, Baltimore">Guilford, Baltimore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, where he remained until his death in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-baltimoresun/nash-house-guilford_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoresun/nash-house-guilford-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nash thought of Baltimore as home. After his return from a brief move to New York, he wrote: "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nash's daughter Isabel was married to noted photographer Frederick Eberstadt. His granddaughter, Frances R. Smith,<sup id="cite_ref-baltimoresun/2001-10-31-0135_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoresun/2001-10-31-0135-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an author. Another granddaughter, <a href="/wiki/Fernanda_Eberstadt" title="Fernanda Eberstadt">Fernanda Eberstadt</a>, is an acclaimed author, and his grandson is political economist <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Eberstadt" title="Nicholas Eberstadt">Nicholas Eberstadt</a>. Nash had one other daughter, author Linell Nash Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-baltimoresun/ob-linell-smith-20220820_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoresun/ob-linell-smith-20220820-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes/1951/06/25/linell-nash-engaged_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes/1951/06/25/linell-nash-engaged-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nash died at Baltimore's <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Hospital" title="Johns Hopkins Hospital">Johns Hopkins Hospital</a> on May 19, 1971, of <a href="/wiki/Crohn%27s_Disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Crohn's Disease">Crohn's Disease</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-j-pouch/famous-with-crohns_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j-pouch/famous-with-crohns-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> aggravated by a <a href="/wiki/Lactobacillus" title="Lactobacillus">lactobacillus</a> infection transmitted by improperly prepared coleslaw.<sup id="cite_ref-baltimoreheritage/270_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoreheritage/270-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTobit_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is buried in East Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/North_Hampton,_New_Hampshire" title="North Hampton, New Hampshire">North Hampton, New Hampshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of his death in 1971, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> said his "droll verse with its unconventional <a href="/wiki/Rhyme" title="Rhyme">rhymes</a> made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry."<sup id="cite_ref-NYTobit_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTobit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musical">Musical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Musical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Nash at Nine</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Broadway_musical" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway musical">Broadway musical</a> that set some of Nash's poems as lyrics to music by <a href="/wiki/Milton_Rosenstock" title="Milton Rosenstock">Milton Rosenstock</a>, premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Helen Hayes Theatre">Helen Hayes Theatre</a> on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> on May 17, 1973, and closed on June 2, 1973, after five previews and 21 performances. Directed by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Charnin" title="Martin Charnin">Martin Charnin</a>, the show featured Steve Elmore, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gerber" title="Bill Gerber">Bill Gerber</a>, <a href="/wiki/E._G._Marshall" title="E. G. Marshall">E. G. Marshall</a>, Richie Schechtman, and <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Vestoff" title="Virginia Vestoff">Virginia Vestoff</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Postage_stamp">Postage stamp</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Postage stamp"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/US_Postal_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="US Postal Service">US Postal Service</a> released a postage stamp featuring Ogden Nash and text from six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on August 19, 2002. The six poems are "The Turtle", "The Cow", "Crossing The Border", "The Kitten", "The Camel", and "Limerick One". The stamp is the 18th in the Literary Arts section.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/First_day_of_issue" title="First day of issue">first issue</a> ceremony took place in Baltimore on August 19 at the home that he and his wife Frances shared with his parents on 4300 Rugby Road, where he did most of his writing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biography">Biography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A biography, <i>Ogden Nash: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse</i>, was written by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_M._Parker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Douglas M. Parker (page does not exist)">Douglas M. Parker</a> and published in 2005. with a paperback edition issued in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Parker/Nash_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parker/Nash-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltimoresun/2005-06-12-0250_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltimoresun/2005-06-12-0250-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Written with the cooperation of the Nash family, the book quotes extensively from Nash's personal correspondence as well as his poetry. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><i>Hard Lines</i>. Simon and Schuster, 1931. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185166483">185166483</a></li> <li><i>I'm a Stranger Here Myself</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1938 (reissued Buccaneer Books, 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56849-468-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-56849-468-8">1-56849-468-8</a>)</li> <li><i>The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash</i>. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1941.</li> <li><i>Good Intentions</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1942. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-125-65764-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-125-65764-5">978-1-125-65764-5</a></li> <li><i>Many Long Years Ago</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1945. ASIN B000OELG1O</li> <li><i>Versus</i>. Little, Brown, & Co, 1949.</li> <li><i>Private Dining Room</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1952. ASIN B000H1Z8U4</li> <li><i>The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day</i>. J. B. Lippincott Co, 1953. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0397302444" title="Special:BookSources/0397302444">0397302444</a></li> <li><i>You Can't Get There from Here</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1957.</li> <li><i>Everyone but Thee and Me</i>. Boston : Little, Brown, 1962.</li> <li><i>Marriage Lines</i>. Boston : Little, Brown, 1964.</li> <li><i>There's Always Another Windmill</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1968. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-59839-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-59839-9">0-316-59839-9</a></li> <li><i>Bed Riddance</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1969. ASIN B000EGGXD8</li> <li><i>Collected Verse from 1929 On</i>. Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd., London, for J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1972</li> <li><i>The Old Dog Barks Backwards</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1972. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-59804-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-59804-6">0-316-59804-6</a></li> <li><i>Custard and Company</i>. Little Brown & Co, 1980. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-59834-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-59834-8">0-316-59834-8</a></li> <li><i>Ogden Nash's Zoo</i>, with <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Delessert_(illustrator)" title="Étienne Delessert (illustrator)">Étienne Delessert</a>. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1986. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-941434-95-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-941434-95-8">0-941434-95-8</a></li> <li><i>Pocket Book of Ogden Nash</i>. Pocket, 1990. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-72789-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-72789-3">0-671-72789-3</a></li> <li><i>Candy Is Dandy</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Burgess" title="Anthony Burgess">Anthony Burgess</a>, Linell Smith, and Isabel Eberstadt. Carlton Books Ltd, 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-233-98892-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-233-98892-0">0-233-98892-0</a></li> <li><i>Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash</i>. Black Dog & Levanthal Publishing, 1995. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-884822-30-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-884822-30-8">978-1-884822-30-8</a></li> <li><i>The Tale of Custard the Dragon</i>, with Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-59031-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-59031-2">0-316-59031-2</a></li> <li><i>Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight</i>, with Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1999. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-59905-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-59905-0">0-316-59905-0</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>List of poems</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25%">Title </th> <th>Year </th> <th>First published </th> <th>Reprinted/collected </th></tr> <tr> <td>Carnival of animals </td> <td>1950 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNash,_Ogden1950" class="citation magazine cs1">Nash, Ogden (January 7, 1950). "Carnival of animals". <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 25, no. 46. p. 26.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Carnival+of+animals&rft.volume=25&rft.issue=46&rft.pages=26&rft.date=1950-01-07&rft.au=Nash%2C+Ogden&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOgden+Nash" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogden_Nash&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-poets.org/graves-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-poets.org/graves_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAcademy_of_American_Poets" class="citation web cs1">Academy of American Poets. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://poets.org/text/death-be-not-proud-graves-poets">"Death, Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets"</a>. <i>Poets.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/">Harry Ransom Center</a> at <a href="/wiki/The_University_of_Texas_at_Austin" class="mw-redirect" title="The University of Texas at Austin">The University of Texas at Austin</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ogden-nash-7942">https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ogden-nash-7942</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/nash/">"American Poems: Ogden Nash"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=American+Poems%3A+Ogden+Nash&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanpoems.com%2Fpoets%2Fnash%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOgden+Nash" class="Z3988"></span> Includes a list of Ogden Nash poems.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.ogdennash.org/">Blogden Nash</a> <a href="/wiki/Fansite" title="Fansite">fansite</a> Includes Ogden Nash poems</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Duke" title="Vernon Duke">Vernon Duke</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMCF8eg2XQk"><i>Musical Zoo</i></a> <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>poems by Ogden Nash set to music</li> <li>Kay McCracken Duke, mezzo-soprano</li> <li>David Berfield, pianist</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Information_Please" title="Information Please">Information Please</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=play_download&mode=play&dl_mp3folder=I&dl_file=information_please_1939-01-17_guests_hendrics_william_van_lone_ogden_nash.mp3&dl_series=Information%20Please&dl_title=Guests%20Hendrics%20William%20Van%20Lone%20Ogden%20Nash&dl_date=1939.01.17&dl_size=6.98%20MB">episode 1939.01.17</a> with panelists <a 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