Ogden Nash The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse

Name: Ogden Nash The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse
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ISBN: 9781566637299

ISBN-10: 1566637295

ISBN-13: 9781566637299

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Authors: Douglas M. Parker, Dana Gioia

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Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker. These inimitable lines could only have been written by Ogden Nash, the American nonpareil of light verse and one of the more remarkable figures in American letters. His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made him, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good nature; now we have it in Douglas Parker's absorbing life of the poet. Mr. Parker has had exclusive access to family letters and diaries, and permission to quote liberally from them and from Nash's poems. He has written a warm and inviting…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 3/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.54" wide x 8.73" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Douglas H. Parker is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Laurentian University.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction



The Early Influences



Getting Started



The New Yorker: In the Beginning



Happy Days



Writing Light Verse...in the Depression



Hollywood Beckons



At Home in Baltimore



One Touch of Venus



Lyrics by Nash



The Children Grow Up



Economics of Poetry: Selling the Wares



From Radio to Lecture Hall to Television



Laureate of the Age of Friction



Another Day, Another Dolor



Baltimore Redux and Little Boar's Head



The Wise Owls of Forty-third Street



Oh, to Be in England



The Last Stanza



The Nash Legacy



Epilogue: The Family


Table of Poems


Bibliography


Notes


Index