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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no private life and no personality," Nash once joked. In fact, he was a quiet and often private man, even though he spent much of his career on the lecture circuit. He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...Nash summered on the coast of New Hampshire and, when not traveling, settled for winter into his Baltimore town house. Some of his verse reflected a playful tenderness toward his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...Nash came into his metier after a spotty early career. Born in Rye, N.Y., into a family with a pre-Revolutionary pedigree, he attended St. George's School in Newport, R.I., and then became "a quarterbred Harvard alumnus"-he dropped out after freshman year. He returned to teach briefly at St. George's, where, he said, "I lost my entire nervous system carving lamb for a table of 14-year-olds." He tried selling bonds in New York; later there was a job writing streetcar advertising, which led him to the advertising department of the publishers Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...Nash always enjoyed that consummate reward, the honor and respect of his friendly rivals in the making of light verse. Poet Morris Bishop offered a tribute in Nash's own language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

Died. Ogden Nash, 68, American master of light verse and champion of the outrageous rhyme (see THE NATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1971 | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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