Ogden Nash, part I
- Date
1959
- Summary
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Martin Levin, teacher and editor of “The Phoenix Nest” in “The Saturday Review,” call the humor of Ogden Nash brief and critical. He explains how Nash reshapes verse in interest of humor. Nash discusses humor and the apprehensions of beginning writers, then reads “Outcome of Mr. McCloud’s Gratitude,” “Lady in Slacks,” “It Is Indeed Spinach,” “Llama,” “A Prawn is a Prawn,” “Will Consider Situation,” “Drink with Something In It,” and “The Sniffle.” Nash notes the difference between his work and that of AP Herbert and Dorothy Parker.
- Contributors
Metropolitan Educational Television Association, New York City; The Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA; Elizabeth Kray; Martin Levin; Ogden Nash; Barbara Kay Davidson; Louis P. Levine; Beth Leibowitz; Alan Beaumont
- Publishers
Indiana University Audio-Visual Center; National Educational Television
- Genres
Educational; Interview
- Subject
Poetry ; Poets.
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:29:24); 16mm
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 30000136712753; Other: GR00426929; MDPI Barcode: 40000003373463
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