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Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. [1] [2] His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born U.S. writer whose poems were widely read during the first half of the 20th century. Guest’s family relocated from Warwickshire, England to the United States in 1891, when Guest was 10 years old.
Edgar Albert Guest was an American poet who became known as the "People's Poet" for his accessible and optimistic verse. He wrote about everyday life, family, and traditional values, themes that resonated with a wide audience, particularly during the first half of the 20th century.
Edgar Albert Guest’s poem shares a soul-stirring message of perseverance, urging those on the verge of giving up to not falter. The poignant sincerity of the speaker’s tone and diction, as well as the imagery provided, make its message a particularly uplifting one.
Edgar Guest - Born in 1881 in England, Edgar Guest was a prolific writer whose poems were often fourteen lines long and presented a deeply sentimental view of everyday life.
Edgar A. Guest was a British-born U.S. writer whose sentimental verses were widely read. Guest’s family moved to the United States in 1891. Four years later he went to work for the Detroit Free Press as a police reporter and then as a writer of daily rhymes, which became so popular that they were.
It Couldn’t Be Done | The Poetry Foundation. By Edgar Albert Guest. Somebody said that it couldn’t be done. But he with a chuckle replied. That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one. Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin. On his face. If he worried he hid it.
Edgar Guest (1881-1959) captures the breathtaking beauty of September and how the world is transformed with hues of gold, orange, red, and yellow. In many of his poems, he used everyday experiences to capture more significant thoughts on life.
Edgar Albert Guest was a 20th-century English-born American poet who became an icon for working-class people. He was once described as the People’s Poet and agreed with this himself, claiming that he was “a newspaper man who wrote verse.”
Biography. Born in Birmingham, England, on August 20, 1881, Edgar A. Guest settled with his family in Detroit in 1891. Starting in 1895 as a copy boy at the Detroit Free Press, Guest worked his way up as police reporter, exchange editor, and verse columnist.
