The Best of Ogden Nash

"Few of our national bards, past or present, have so consistently, with so light and sure a touch, illuminated the inconsistences and capriciousness of contemporary life." -New York Times Ogden Nash is the funniest poet this country has known." -JONATHAN YARDLEY, Washington Post "One man completely dominates light verse in American literature, and no one is ever likely to surpass him. His name happens to rhyme with bash, cash, crash, utter smash-first name with frogmen and hog then." -JOSEPH EPSTEIN "Clearly Ogden Nash is God's gift to the United States... our best literary comedian since Will Rogers. He has become, in a strictly Shakespearian sense, America's number one fool, though in any other sense he is nobody's fool." -The Atlantic "Even now, over thirty years after he passed, surely, to his heavenly reward, the puckish poet still entertains, brilliantly... Nash's humorous verses are a continual delight, as this volume will remind old admirers while regaling readers encountering him for the first time-and, given the current state of the world, not a moment too soon." -JOSEPH PARISI "He is not only everything that his followers claim-witty, clever, and acidly urbane-he is also, by the problem he poses and by the technique with which he poses it, a serious poet." -San Francisco Chronicle "Upon reading a Nash verse, I am invariably tempted to break the Commandment: thou shalt not steal." -MARK RUSSEL "The reader will find himself completely captivated by rhyming of such unexpected originality that his only comment is hearty laughter." -Harper's "His rhymes were not merely amusing but often revelatory... [His] legacy remains a vital part of twentieth-century American poetry." -DANA GIOLA "Ogden Nash is a great man. A great wit, a great versifier, a great giver of delight to those who read him." -Baltimore Sun