About Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash was a famous american poet well known for his 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. Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972. Among his most popular writings were a series of animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming devices. Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses. Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem.Nash was a baseball fan, and he wrote a poem titled Line-Up for Yesterday, an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in Sport magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order.
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