Nash and his love of the Baltimore Colts were featured in the Decemissue of Life, with several poems about the American football team matched to full-page pictures.
He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.
The show included the notable song " Speak Low". Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus and collaborated with the librettist S. Nash was regarded with respect by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized even in serious collections like Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. When Nash was not writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom and gave lectures at colleges and universities. For example, one verse, titled "Common Sense", asks: Some of his poems reflected an anti-establishment feeling. He published his first collection of poems, Hard Lines, the same year, which earned him national recognition. The editor Harold Ross wrote Nash to ask for more: "They are about the most original stuff we have had lately." Nash spent three months in 1931 in working on the editorial staff for The New Yorker. While working as an editor at Doubleday, he submitted some short rhymes to The New Yorker. However, I saw lots of good movies." Nash then took a position as a writer of the streetcar card ads for Barron Collier, a company that had employed another Baltimore resident, F. There, he took up selling bonds about which Nash reportedly quipped, "Came to New York to make my fortune as a bond salesman and in two years sold one bond-to my godmother. George's for one year before he returned to New York. George's School in Newport County, Rhode Island, Nash entered Harvard University in 1920, only to drop out a year later. His family lived briefly in Savannah, Georgia, in a carriage house owned by Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist but admitted that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task. "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old", he stated in a 1958 news interview. Throughout his life, Nash loved to rhyme. The city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named after Abner's brother, Francis, a Revolutionary War general. Nash was descended from Abner Nash, an early governor of North Carolina. His father owned and operated an import–export company, and because of business obligations, the family often relocated. Nash was born in Rye, New York, the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Frederic Ogden Nash (Aug– May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces.
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