Books : Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash
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by: Ogden Nash
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9781884822308
ISBN: 1884822304
Label: Black Dog & Leventhal
Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 682
Publication Date: January 09, 1995
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Sales Rank: 665263
Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal
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Product Description:
The ultimate collection of verses by America's best-loved humorous author, culled from collections put together by Nash himself. Features Nash's unique rhymes, puns, and observations about everything under the sun.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Dangerous Little Ditties
If you like this book, and the sweetly subversive worlds of George Booth, Ogden Nash or Shel Silverstein, then you should pick up Nick Bantock's (of Gryphon & Sabine fame), "Averse to Beasts," a book with cassette whose dangerous little ditties rival Nash's in their hilarity with a dose of arsenic.
Rating: - Terse Verse
Don't trash
Ogden Nash.
His words
ain't turds
His swirls
Are pearls.
Rating:  - Lacks indices of titles or first lines.
This book seems to contain all of Ogden Nash's best verses. But good luck finding them: there is no index of titles or first lines. With so many verses, many of them titled counter-intuitively, you will only find the verse you seek by sheer luck, if at all.
Rating: - Great work, poor copy editing
This is a completely enjoyable collection that keeps me smiling as I read. Unfortunately, it seems the proof reader relied on a computer's spell-checker program. It let him down.
The spelling errors surprised me. I guess I may have spotted an error or two in other books, but I seem to keep stumbling on them in this book. They're distracting and it seems almost sinful to have let them appear in this wonderful collection.
Mr. Nash's insight, humor and unique form are well ... Read More
Rating:  - More clever than brilliant, but clever is good.
Ogden Nash should probably be considered more of a humorist than a poet. After all, he makes up words and sometimes totally disregards any sense of meter. Maybe "rhyming humorist" would be most accurate (even though there is some real poetry here, too). In my opinion, his strongest poems are his shortest. I particularly enjoy his poems about animals. Some of his humor seems a little dated and, unlike a previous reviewer, I found little here that, for me, was laugh-out-loud funny. One of my favorite ... Read More
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