Verses from 1929 on

by Ogden Nash

Book Overview

Collection of the work of Ogden Nash from 1929 to 1959. The remarkable durability of this shrewd humorist's comments on everything under the sun has carried the great majority of the poems into this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316598283
• ISBN13: 9780316598286
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Poetry Manly and Wise

Let's plump down our cash For the verses of Nash Though they wink at both meter and rhyme. Yes, let's plunk down our pence For these poems make sense At least, about half of the time. Oh, who gives a fig for Bukowski or Collins Or a solo played by the great Sonny Rollins? Let all the old poets be backfilled and bogged-in I only ask for more verses by Ogden. ----Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and the almost totally unpoetical novel bang BANG: A Novel ISBN 9781601640005

If you play Scrabble, keep a copy of this book near

This is a collection of the beat of Ogdenisms over a 30-year period. I really like his short verses as I can remember them when I am describing Ogden Nash to people. This book has 522 pages with more verses than pages. He never has problems with acquiring riming words, even thou the dictionaries fall short of containing them. This is the American way with English. So when you play scrabble keep a copy of this next to the deficient dictionary

Collected Verse from 1929 on

A remarkable collection of poetry, wit, observations and reflections on life. Ideal for those who enjoy a chuckle. I have most pages turned over in this book, as it's such an entertaining read!