Surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect.
Often wrote in an exaggerated verse form with pairs of lines that rhyme, but are of dissimilar length and irregular meter.
Often a playful twist of an old saying or poem.
Ogden Nash an amazing humourist whose short pithy poems entered the realm as an American Literature treasure . With more than twenty 20 books to his credit he is a versatile writer for children of all ages.Born, Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York, he was an ancestor if General Francis Nash.He was raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia, educated at St. George`s School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University.
He started work, writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New York, in 1925. His first published book for children was, The Cricket of Caradon came in 1925. A few interesting facts:Joins staff at New Yorker in 1932.
Married Frances Rider Leonard on June 6, 1933.
Published 19 books of poetry.
Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950.
Lived in New York but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
