Ogden Nash

1902–1971 · American poet of light verse; New Yorker contributor

Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York, in 1902 and died in Baltimore in 1971. He made his name with deliberately lopsided rhymes and stretched-out lines, publishing his first collection, Hard Lines, in 1931 and briefly working on The New Yorker’s editorial staff that same year after Harold Ross responded warmly to his submissions. He wrote more than five hundred pieces of light verse, of which the billboard quatrain is among the most quoted — and the most often stripped of his name.

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“I Think that I Shall Never See a Billboard Lovely as a Tree”

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