The People's Poet, Edgar Guest, wrote this 1916 collection of verse. Guest's poems are known for their optimistic and sentimental quality. This collection centers around home and family.
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The People's Poet, Edgar Guest, wrote this 1916 collection of verse. Guest's poems are known for their optimistic and sentimental quality. This collection centers around home and family.
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A nostalgic collection of old fashioned poetry by Edgar A. Guest, the poet whose poems appeared in many papers( and other publications) many years ago. I remember my grandmother reading them, and this volume brings back happy memories. Rhyming verses.and sentimentality were the words of the day. No free verse from Mr. Guest.
JoAn
May 10, 2007
Grandma's poet
My grandmother kept a scrapbook in the 1930's. It contained items that were important to her , pictures of people she knew, obituaries, but also whatever culture she could glean from the desolate prairie she lived in.
She had one poet whose homespun poems appeared quite frequently in Grandma's scrapbook, poems by Edgar Guest. Poetry seems to have gone out of style so I have been collecting books of poetry by American poets, but I had nothing by Edgar Guest.
The internet supplied information on Edgar Guest who had been a popular poet who wrote for a Detroit newspaper for many years. His books were made up of poems from his newspaper days and they are rough, but they were probably very affordable for the people who had little money in those days.
Now I am a great grandmother I am enjoying my trip back in time through the pages of such books as A Heap of Living.
Life by Edgar A. Guest Life is a gift to be used every day, Not to be smothered and hidden away; It isn't a thing to be stored in the chest Where you gather your keepsakes and treasure your best; It isn't a joy to be sipped now and then And promptly put back in a dark place again.
Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of And one that the humblest may well make the most of. Get out and live it each hour of the day, Wear it and use it as much as you may; Don't keep it in niches and corners and grooves, You'll find that in service its beauty improves.
