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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 August 1902
- Died
- 19 May 1971
- Works
- 214
Top works
- Štihovi
- I'm a stranger here myself
- bed riddance
- There's Always Another WindWill
- Parents Keep Out, Reprint 1952 (Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers)
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Film & TV
Writing · Rye, New York, USA
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 — May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Known for
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America1992
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1902
- Active to
- 1971
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,215
- Total plays
- 15,107
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".[1] <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ogden+Nash">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles
· 1970 · cited 19,216x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,922x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
- Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012
· 2014 · cited 6,601x
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Quotes
- “Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.”
- “Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.”
- “Man is a victim of dopeIn the incurable form of hope.”
- “Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”
- “Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.”
- “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Frederic Ogden Nash , ( 1902-08-19 ) August 19, 1902, Rye , New York , U.S.
- Died
- May 19, 1971 (1971-05-19) (aged 68), Baltimore , Maryland, U.S.
- Resting place
- East Cemetery, North Hampton, New Hampshire
- Education
- Harvard University (for 1 year)
- Occupation
- Poet
- Spouse
- Frances Leonard
- Relatives
- Fernanda Eberstadt (granddaughter), Nicholas Eberstadt (grandson)
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ogden Nash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.