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I would love to put a poem of his here but copyright forbids. *sigh* --drj
I see there's a poem of his here, and there's one been added recently to Turtle. Are either of these in the public domain now? I'm guessing "no". --Paul Drye
I removed the quote :But where there's a monster there's a miracle because I can't find reference to it in my Ogden Nash compendium - it certainly isn't famous enough to be listed here. There are some Internet references to the line being said by an "Ogden Ash" but even that seems dubious. - DavidWBrooks 11:57, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I almost removed the long quote from Thomas Hood's 1826 poem, "Our Village," which seems like overkill in an article this size. Any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks 12:15, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
It currently says that he married "Michael Jackson"? - More vandalism? --juliannechat — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliannechat (talk • contribs) 00:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Someone has added Nash's name to the List of Bahá'í_individuals, and added that as a category to this article - but they haven't added any information about that to the article. Does anyone know any more about this? Since Baha'is are non drinkers, and "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" is perhaps Nash's best known short poem, I find it... surprising. PaulHammond 19:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I just removed a very long and unformatted, but well-written and informative, addition from an anonymous IP with no wikipedia history, partly because it repeated already here, but most because it arrived in such form that it looked like something that had been cut-and-pasted from a biography - and a huge edit like that from a complete newbie must, alas, be regarded with suspicion. If I am in error and the IP would like to re-insert it the material, perhaps we could discuss it here and figure out how best to integrate it into the existing article. - DavidWBrooks 23:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I am doing a report on Ogden Nash. I was reading the article and after the poem the lama, there was a footnote. And it said: "The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration called a three-alarmer. Pooh." Is the word "pooh" supposed to be there, and if so why? I am very confused 209.247.5.219 20:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Matto-94
Thanks guys; oh, and I did a little more research on the poem, and I found every other website had the word "pooh" after the footnote; so I guess Nash really did write it. Thanks for your help anyway." 209.247.5.219 20:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Matto-94
As an r-dropping New Zealander, I'm interested that three-alarmer and three-l lllama are considered close enough to satisfy the American ear as a disproof of Nash's thesis here. Would "alarmer" count as a rhyme for "pyjama" with Americans? It's an exact rhyme for a New Zealander (other than a Southlander or South Otago-ite) and (I'm reasonably sure) most r-dropping British speakers. Is the vowel even the same? I have an idea that American "pyjamas" differs from our "pyjamas" as their "glass" differs from ours. Koro Neil (talk) 16:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes it is accurate. I have an old collection of Ogden Nash poetry in print (back in the 60s, 70s and the same footnote is there. Anyone who knows Ogden Nash's propensity for satire would recognize this as vintage Nash). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CFE5:E130:A5CD:E36D:B072:2B13 (talk) 09:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
I understand copyright issues, but surely quoting a few lines here and there is fair use? Some mention should be made of Nash holding the distinction of authoring the shortest poem in the English language, per Guinness. The poem is titled "On the Antiquity of Fleas" and the entire poem reads:
Adam
Had 'em
Surely Guinness didn't have to pay Nash's estate royalties to report this fact in their book -- I see no reason why it shouldn't be included in the article.StanislavJ 23:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I did a massive clean-up, as full poems aren't fair use. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 19:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I think that this would be an awesome addition. But I can't find any citations for this? In fact, I see a bunch of people claiming that m is the shortest poem. If he was the record holder in the past I still think it would be worth noting. VoodooEconomics (talk) 18:47, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
At some point in the late 60's he added
Pot
Is not.
Wikeph (talk) 21:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
It was by a student sorry for the confusion.
The Joyce Kilmer parody poem is frequently quoted, as it is here:
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
But my copy of his book The Face Is Familiar (Garden City Publishing, 1941) includes the poem, Song of the Open Road (p. 21) and renders it this way:
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I wrote to Newsweek many years ago about this same misquotation, and received a letter back that "Perhaps, indeed was wrong." --Karen | Talk | contribs 01:43, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Is the infamous ditty "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Some/Most poems rhyme, This one doesn't" his or not? If so surely it is his "most famous" one, even more so than the lllama one. 66.105.218.28 (talk) 20:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
As Wikipedia is conservative on its use of non-free content, I have truncated the amount of poetry quoted here. Several poems were quoted in their entirety, for instance. I know Nash wrote short, and it is much harder to excerpt him than it would be an author like T. S. Eliot, but I'm afraid that we have to work within our strictures. We must use small portions of copyrighted content and only as much as is necessary to meet our encyclopedic purpose.
In addition to that, I'll note that quite a lot of this article seems to constitute original research. Our purpose here as a tertiary source is to collect and summarize what reliable sources say about notable subjects, not to analyze them ourselves. :) The entire section on Poetic style and the subsequent section have no sources at all, save for primary sources. How do actual published critics receive Nash? What do they say about his playfulness? This is what we should be talking about, in accordance with our mission. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:51, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Oh, honestly! -the heading reads "Death and subsequent events". While that may display a certain Nashian wit, it's hilariously inappropriate. Death is seldom followed by subsequent events, unless your name is Lazarus or Jesus H. Christ. Can we please come up with something a bit more scholarly for the heading? Bricology (talk) 06:36, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
April 15th is not the ides of April, as the article states (in short months, the ides fall on the 13th). Zaxius (talk) 16:06, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Ogden Nash's ancestors didn't actually "found" Nashville, TN. It is true that Abner Nash's brother Francis is the namesake of that city, which was founded in 1779. Trouble is, Francis Nash died two years earlier, in 1777. You can't establish a city when you're dead.
The article contains a reference to this erroneous claim as well. It's probably a case of family lore being conflated with fact.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee#History
This link, a source for the History of Nashville page, [1] correctly states that Nashville was established by James Robertson on 25 Dec 1779. 204.93.113.55 (talk) 15:54, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
And name of the poem Llg80y64 (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
I am trying to find a poem of his called "Why it is better to go out and see people than to have people come and see you". The first line is "Because then you can leave when you are through". Can anyone point me to it? Thanks, HandsomeMrToad (talk) 05:16, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
This is what the source (NYT obit) says: He had undergone abdominal surgery in March. Last month he developed pneumonia and kidney failure. Mr. Nash was making some progress while receiving treatment with an artificial kidney, but about 10 days ago he suffered a stroke. A hospital spokesman said that the ultimate cause of death was heart failure.
For over a decade, this article has said he died of complications from Crohn's disease aggravated by a lactobacillus infection transmitted by improperly prepared coleslaw.
A reader tweeted about the long-lived vandalism, noting that many websites have since copied the information. I fixed the wording per the source. Schazjmd (talk) 00:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)