Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
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Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Ogden Nash page. You will find biography, lesson plans and e-texts. For other authors, see Children's Authors & Illustrators. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. 2/2/03


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Biography

A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Biography, criticism, e-texts
Ogden Nash - MDSOS Kids' Page
Biography; poems
Ogden Nash Collection, Biography
From University of Texas at Austin

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Lesson Plans

Poems That Work!
Middle school; grades 5-8; by Richard Guidone; From Yale-New Haven
A Method of Teaching "Turned Off" Inner-City Youths to Produce Urban Literature
Lecture Notes. Introduction to Poetry
By Mike Jacksman, University of Louisville
Weaving Technology into Thematic Units. Poetry
Elementary level; Okaloosa County School District
Year Seven. An Introduction to Poetry
Nash's poem, "The People Upstairs" with activities
Massachusetts Dept. of Education. Literature Strands
See Learning Standard 14, grades 5-8
A Laugh and a Half: Students Make Funny-Poem Mobiles
Third Grade Literature
Uses "Adventures of Isabel"
Ogden Nash Report
Kari wrote and researched this report. Includes the texts of
"The Eel" and "A Watched Example Never Boils"
Language Arts. Grade 6. Author Study

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E-texts of Poems

Selected Poems of Ogden Nash
Extensive collection
Selected Works of Ogden Nash
John Engen's Ogden Nash Poem Collection
Extensive collection
Ogden Nash - MDSOS Kids' Page
Includes "The Fly;" "The Octopus;" "Advice to Husbands;"
"The Guppy"
Ogden Nash. Kids' Poetry
"The Octopus," "The Eel," "The Hippopotamus," "The Ant," "The
Centipede,The Fly," "The Termite," "Requiem"
Ogden Nash. Poetry
Extensive collection of poems by subject: people, places,
animals, insects, stuff; from The Rago Wisdom Portal
Pine Valley 5: Ogden Nash
"A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty;" "Kipling's Vermont;" "Old Men;"
"My Dream"
Cool Bird Poems. Nash's "The Grackel"
Cool Bird Poems. Nash's "The Gull"
Ogden Nash on Mermaids and Other Sea Life
"The Mermaid;" "The Octopus;" "The Eel;" "The Porpoise;"
"The Jellyfish;" "The Shark;" "Pretty Halcyon Days;" "The Sea-Gull"
Aphorisms Galore! Ogden Nash
TPCN - Great Quotations by Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash's "The Common Cold"
Includes the poem and criticism; also poems "The Cobra" and "The Bronx"
Selected Poems by Ogden Nash
"Very Like a Whale" and "The Cobra"
Poem, "P. G. Wooster, Just as he Useter"
[P. G. Wodehouse]
Ogden Nash. "The Germ"
Ogden Nash. "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"
Douglas Sloane's Poetry Page
Anatomical Reflection," "The Ant," "I Have It on Good Authority," "Ode to a Baby," "The Canary," "The Camel," "Adventures of Isabel," "Celery," "The Centipede," "Common Cold," "The Cow," "The Tale of Custard the Dragon," "My Dream," "The Eel," "So Does Everybody Else Only Not So Much," "Everybody Tells Me Everything," "The Firefly," "The Fish," "The Fly," "The Grackle," "The Guppy," "Pretty Halcyon Days," "The Hippopotamous," "Reflections on Ice Breaking," "Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice," "Kipling's Vermont," "The Octopus," "Old Men," "The Ostrich," "The Panther," "Further Reflections on Parlsey," "Possessions Are Nine Points of Conversation," "Requiem," "Samson Agonistes," "The Shrimp," "The Abominable Snowman," "The Termite," "A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty," "The Turtle," "The Wasp," "Reflection on a Wicked World."
"Columbus" From John & Gina's page

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Bibliography

Ogden Nash - A Bibliography From the ISLMC
The Locus Index to Science Fiction
A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash. Selected Bibliography

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