| The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash Contributor(s): Stuart, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1568331274 ISBN-13: 9781568331270 Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2000 Annotation: A personal history of one of America's most successful writers, whose career included publishing and screenwriting in addition to his beloved poetry. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91022056 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.32" W x 9.2" L (0.96 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
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