This UK newspaper portrays 19th century author Edward Lear as Britain's equivalent of Ogden Nash. His hilarious, abstract and looney verse was unquestionably ground-breaking stuff for victorian England. Nash and Lear's work were recently grouped together in a "Great Eccentrics" a comic recital starring Dame Judi Densch. Sounds like a wonderfully entertaining show.Here is an example of Lear's writte...

Nash professes in the following poem that he was a born spectator. However, he was also someone who loved to play. Ogden Nash was known to relish playing football and ice hockey while in school.I recently discovered this athletic verse, thanks to Amitabh of Pune, India. Having memorized Casey at the Bat when I was in 6th grade, I was delighted to encounter another poem about sports. (The archive of...

During the summer of 1972 I was at hockey camp at St. Georges School, Middletown, RI, where the versifier had been both a student and teacher.Amidst a rat pack of 'Hot Rod' reading, 'Bonomo' Turkish Taffy eating teens, the school's administrator, Mr. Baldwin, introduced me to Nash. Summoning me to his grandiose, wood-paneled office, overlooking an expansive lawn, he directed me to read from his clu...

The words created in this guide are very much in the style and spirit of Nash's original poetic modifications:Yellular - The loudness one adopts in response to a bad cell-phone connection.Restaur-romp - last night's make-out session at the bar (Possibly the next step after 'Liquor is Quicker' )...

Expand the imageIn 1966 a man named George Hill wrote the New York Times in opposition of extending the copyright bill 50 years past the death of an author.The published letter so riled Ogden Nash that he drafted a reply entitled "Protection for Writers" that appeared on on September 26, 1966. The Nash's were no strangers to the editorial page with Nash's father having numerous of his letters publi...