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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash 1902 - 1971
World of Books
31 October 1964  Home Service
Ogden Nash talks to Kenneth Allsop about

   Audiothe influence of James Joyce, picking and stealing and rhyming techniques  2 min 0
   Audiowomen  2 min 7
   Audioother people's descriptions of him  1 min 25

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Ogden Nash
American writer of humorous poetry
A master of light verse, the impact of Nash's poems lies in the rhymes, bizarrely tangential or disconcertingly exact, they are always satisfyingly strange.
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