
Ogden Nash was a rare poet: one who celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity. He struggled his whole career with comparisons to "serious" poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that were the lifeblood to his style of writing. In addition...

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...