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Biography of Ogden Nash
Name: Ogden Nash
Birth Date: August 19, 1902
Death Date: May 19, 1971
Place of Birth: Rye, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, writer
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was arguably one of the most commercially successful English-language poets of the twentieth century.Nash's verse skewered the pretensions of the modern middle class existence and gave voice to the inner seethings of the average, besieged-by-life individual--and he did it with a cunning, swift humor. Though sometimes the object of criticism from literary purists, Nash's talent for composing verse using the common American vernacular earned him great success over a four-decade period.Nash was born Frediric Ogden Nash in Rye, New York, to Edmund Strudwick and Mattie (Chenault) Nash in 1902. His father was in the import-export business, but the Nash family's ancestry was a distinguished American blueblood one. Their roots in North Carolina stretched back to the American Revolutionary era, and the city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named in honor of another forbearer. Nash himself grew up in various East Coast communities, and also lived in Savannah, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…entire volume, 1970's Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposed.Nash died a year later on May 19, 1971. Several collections of his work were published posthumously, including I Wouldn't Have Missed It (1975) and A Penny Saved Is Impossible (1981). Fellow poet Morris Bishop eulogized Nash in Time magazine with these lines: "Free from flashiness, free from trashiness/Is the essence of ogdenashiness./Rich, original, rash and rational/Stands the monument ogdenational." Associated Works Hard Lines (Nash, Ogden), The New Yorker (Magazine) Further Reading Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 34, Gale, 1991.Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 23, Gale, 1983.Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 11: American Humorists, 1800-1950, Gale, 1982.Nash, Ogden, The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, Simon & Schuster, 1936.Reference Guide to American Literature, second edition, St. James Press, 1987.New Republic, October 21, 1972, pp. 31-34.New Yorker, 1930.New York Herald Tribune Books, January 18, 1931, p. 7.New York Times Book Review, February 17, 1935, p. 4.Saturday Review of Literature, January 17, 1931, p. 530.Time, May, 1971.
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