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	Edgar Albert Guest at Old Poetry
		Eddie Guest was born in Birmingham, England in 1881, moving to Michigan USA as a young child, it was here he was educated.
		Guest figured he might just as well write verse as clip it and submitted one of his own, a dialect verse, to Sunday editor Arthur Mosley.
		Guest's verses, originally clipped by exchange editors at other papers, went into syndication and he was carried by more than 300 newspapers.
	www.oldpoetry.com /oauthor/show/Edgar_Albert_Guest.html (1163 words)

	Guest's Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guest glanced at me, as if to include me in the operation of his urbanity, and his glance stirred in my soul an impulse of that kindness which we feel for a man about to be executed.
		Guest's absence was prolonged from day to day, and Laura's tone of allusion to her father tended indeed to make a sort of invincible chimera of her possible discovery of the truth.
		Guest, hereupon, as I conjectured, utterly disillusioned by the cynical frankness of her defection, had seen his horizon grow ominously dark, and begun to fancy, as I remained silent, that there was thunder in the air.
	www.blackmask.com /books86c/guestconf.htm (21767 words)

	Edgar A. Guest -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		U.S. writer Edgar A. Guest was immensely popular for his serious verse dealing with everyday life as well as for his humorous verse and sketches.
		Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England, on Aug. 20, 1881.
		Guest, Edgar A. writer Edgar A. Guest was immensely popular for his serious verse dealing with everyday life as well as for his humorous verse and sketches.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9325394 (575 words)

	Edgar A. Guest
		It did not occur to Guest to write in verse until late in 1898 when he was working as assistant exchange editor.
		Guest figured he might just as well write verse as clip it and submitted one of his own, a dialect verse, to Sunday editor Arthur Mosley.
		Guest's verses, originally clipped by exchange editors at other papers, went into syndication and he was carried by more than 300 newspapers.
	www.freep.com /jobspage/club/guest.htm (888 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the newspaperman and popular versifier Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), who amazed the publishing world with his unstoppable talent for producing a steady stream of sentimental and moralistic rhymes on such subjects as home, mother, and the virtue of hard work.
		Guest was born in England and came with his family to the United States in 1891.
		Guest acknowledged that he was no favorite of "highbrow, longhair intellectual critics and writers," attributing his journalistic popularity to this simple formula: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them."
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=662 (349 words)

	RPO -- Selected Poetry of Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
		Born in Birmingham, England, on August 20, 1881, Edgar A. Guest settled with his family in Detroit in 1891.
		Guest was a Mason, a member of the Episcopal church, and a lifelong golfer.
		Late in life Guest was given several honorary degrees, notably by the University of Michigan in 1955.
	eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poet143.html (662 words)

	Edgar Guest Summary
		Edgar Albert Guest(August 20, 1881 – August 5, 1959) was a prolific United States poet popular in the first half of the 20th century.
		In the following biographical sketch, McEvoy humorously and affectionately draws a portrait of Guest from glances at his life and verse.
		In the following excerpt, Bakeless uses humor to criticize Guest's verse and its admirers.
	www.bookrags.com /Edgar_Guest (160 words)

	Edgar Guest - Reviews on RateItAll
		Edgar Guest (1881-1959) was an American poet born in England.
		Edgar Guest's doggerel is laughably bad, but he was rather popular in heartland America during the mid-20th century.
		Edgar Guest is arguably the worst published poet of the 20th century -- everything rhymes and scans perfectly but, qualitatively, it is pure drivel below greeting-card standards.
	www.rateitall.com /i-27118-edgar-guest.aspx (340 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Edgar Guest
		Edgar Guest was born in Birmingham, England, on August 20, 1881, to Edwin and Julia Wayne Guest.
		His father died when the poet was seventeen, and Guest was forced to drop out of high school and work full time at the newspaper.
		Guest has been called "the poet of the people." Most often, his poems were fourteen lines long and presented a deeply sentimental view of everyday life.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/731 (363 words)

	Encyclopedia: Edgar Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edgar A. Guest (August 20, 1881 â“ August 5, 1959) was a prolific United States poet popular in the first half of the 20th century.
		His great-niece Judith Guest is a successful novelist who wrote Ordinary People.
		Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936), in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edgar-Guest (550 words)

	4Literature Library on CD-ROM
		Conversation of Eiros and Charmion by Edgar Allan Poe
		Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe
		Sonnet - To Zante by Edgar Allan Poe
	www.4literature.net /cd.html (3723 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Edgar Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guest, Edgar A. Poems of Patriotism Publisher: Rand McNally 1942.
		Guest, Edgar A. A Tribute to Henry Ford 1863-1947 Publisher: 1947.
		Guest, Edgar A. Poems of Patriotism Publisher: Reilly & lee Chicago 1922.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Edgar_Guest (1306 words)

	Edgar Albert Guest
		Called "The People’s Poet"—and known as Eddie—Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American writer whose sentimental and optimistic verses were widely read throughout North America.
		Several of Guest’s poems, such as "I see you've travelled some", either referred to Freemasonry or echoed masonic sentiments.
		Because of Brother Guest’s devotion to Freemasonry, community and humanity in general, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Michigan established the Edgar A. Guest Award for lodges to present to non-masons within the community who have demonstrated distinguished service to the community and their fellow man.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/guest_e/guest_e.html (208 words)

	Edgar A. Guest III: Veteran theater actor, director - 2/14/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BIRMINGHAM -- Edgar A. Guest III, who devoted his life to theater, died Friday, Feb. 11, 2000, of a heart attack at his Birmingham home.
		Guest, the grandson of poet Edgar A. Guest, was 60.
		Guest worked in various theaters as an actor, director or just building sets, said his sister, Jane Guest-Duffy of Grosse Pointe Woods.
	www.detnews.com /2000/obituaries/0002/17/02140057.htm (262 words)

	guest - definition by dict.die.net
		A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
		To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night.
		To be, or act the part of, a guest.
	dict.die.net /guest (111 words)

	House in Progress Diary: Edgar Guest on Talk Like a Pirate Day
		I found this picture in the basement (one of the many things left behind in the house) and thought, hmm.
		Search for 'edgar guest the pirate' on on other houseblogs like this one.
		Thanks for the laugh.We need it today as we have a Celebration of Life/ rememberence day for Steve Erwin.As a country we have lost three famous sons in the last few weeks but Steve was a loss to the world and all her creatures.
	www.houseinprogress.net /archives/001348.html (316 words)

	Edgar A. Guest Quotes - Inspirational Words of Wisdom
		Edgar A. Guest was a poet whose work lives on today.
		I first discovered Edgar A. Guest's work when I purchased his book, "Favorite Verse of Edgar A. Guest" at an auction.
		Edgar A. Guest, from It Couldn't Be Done
	www.wow4u.com /edgar-guest (325 words)

	PotW #339 (Reference Only, No Text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guest, Edgar A. Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest.
		Edgar Albert Guest was author of the syndicated newspaper column Breakfast Table Chat, host of a weekly radio show from 1931 to 1942, and host of a television show in 1951.
		The state legislature voted Guest Michigan's first poet laureate in 1925, but this action was vetoed by the governor.
	www.potw.org /archive/potw339.html (95 words)

	Guest's Confession, by Henry James
		Guest's and hers --I was slightly puzzled to divine, and in so far as my conjectures seemed plausible, I confess they served as but a scanty offset to my knowledge of the gentleman's foibles.
		In so far as I _was_ serious, Miss Guest frankly offered to accept me as a friend, and laughingly intimated, indeed, that with a little matronly tuition of her dispensing, I might put myself into condition to please some simple maiden in her flower.
		Guest, (580) hereupon, as I conjectured, utterly disillusioned by the cynical frankness of her defection, had seen his horizon grow ominously dark, and begun to fancy, as I remained silent, that there was thunder in the air.
	www.newpaltz.edu /~hathawar/guest.html (21978 words)

	Since You Asked - Poet was Guest in our Corner
		The poetry of Edgar Guest (1881-1959) first appeared in the Detroit Free Press in 1895, when he was just 14.
		Your father-in-law probably saw some of Guest's poems in the Mail Tribune's Poets' Corner, which started as a regular Sunday feature in February 1961 and continued for 16 years.
		The Corner was edited by Arnold Jenny, a native of Switzerland and a YMCA executive who lived in the Rogue Valley Manor until his death in 1977.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2000/march/031500n11.htm (348 words)

	Poet: Edgar Albert Guest - All poems of Edgar Albert Guest
		Poet: Edgar Albert Guest - All poems of Edgar Albert Guest
		Poet: Edgar Albert Guest - All poems of Edgar Albe
		Called "The People’s Poet"—and known as Eddie—Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American writer whose sentimental and optimistic verses were widely read...
	www.poemhunter.com /edgar-albert-guest (325 words)

	regarding poem 'Don't Quit' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This poem was written by Edgar A Guest..
		Edgar Guest was a writer for the Detroit News (Michigan)and had his poetry published in the paper for many years.
		I am proud to say that I knew Edgar Guest as a young child...
	www.americaninspirational.com /discgod2/_disc11/00000031.htm (247 words)

	Edgar Guest, "Poet of the People"
		In 1895, Edgar A. “Eddie” Guest worked for the Detroit and worked his way up from office boy to eventually becoming a “Poet of the People.” With the consent of the Free Press, Guest’s “poem a day” went into syndication and appeared in over 250 newspapers.
		With a poem in print every day for thirty years, Guest’s poems reached a wide and admiring audience.
		Oh, I wonder sometimes what would happen to Me If the wife were not seated just where she Could be On guard every minute to watch every trick, And keep me in line all the time with her kick.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/guest/poet.html (595 words)

	eBay - edgar guest, Antiquarian Collectible, Prints items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edgar Guest ---Heap O Livin --1st ed-- 1916 hb
		EDGAR GUEST, THE LIGHT OF FAITH, REILLY and LEE W/DJ '26
		A Heap O'Livin By Edgar A. Guest 1916
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=edgar+guest&newu=1&krd=1 (534 words)

	Amazon.com: Collected Verse: Books: Edgar Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was given a book of Edgar A. Guest's poetry as a birthday present when I was a kid.
		He's not fancy, doesn't use free verse, or symbolism --- which is exactly why, forty years after first being introduced to this poet, I still sit down from time to time just to browse through a book of poems by Edgar A. Guest just for the sheer joy of reading his poetry.
		Edger Guest makes you feel the love of family and the true appretiation of poetry.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Verse-Edgar-Guest/dp/1568491085 (1141 words)

	Edgar Guest
		Edgar Guest wrote with such simple and yet at the same time splendid beauty.
		He could turn the homeliest and most familiar surroundings into heroic and sacred aspects of the dance of life.
		To a nation overwhelmed by a tumultuous ordeal of change, Edgar Guest touched millions with the simplest words of the English language, and lifted their souls, gave wings to their hopes, and fortified them with almost spiritual armor to face the daunting tasks that faced, in Brokaw's words,
	geocities.com /robbi01/guest.html (265 words)

	Edgar Guest
		Edgar Guest wrote with such simple and yet at the same time splendid beauty.
		He could turn the homeliest and most familiar surroundings into heroic and sacred aspects of the dance of life.
		To a nation overwhelmed by a tumultuous ordeal of change, Edgar Guest touched millions with the simplest words of the English language, and lifted their souls, gave wings to their hopes, and fortified them with almost spiritual armor to face the daunting tasks that faced, in Brokaw's words,
	www.geocities.com /robbi01/guest.html (265 words)

	Edgar Guest Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edgar Guest's poems delight in life's wholesome side.
		He has to stand a lot of pain Inside his heart and not complain; And pay with lonely days and sad For all the happy hours he's had.
		A little braver when the skies are gray, A little stronger when the road seems long, A little more of patience through the day, And not so quick to magnify a wrong.
	www.auxano.com /poetry/guest.html (2199 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Edgar Guest, Goal That's Afar ~ August 20 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Called "The Poet of the People" for his heartwarming, down-to-earth writing, Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959) was born on this day in Birmingham, England and settled with his family in Detroit, Michigan when he was nearly 12.
		The versatile writer was syndicated in over 300 U.S. newspapers, had his own weekly radio program on NBC (1931-1942), and his own television show, A Guest in Your Home, in 1951.
		A friend of inventors Henry Ford and Charles Kettering, Guest once observed: "Life is a gift to be used every day, Not to be smothered and hidden away."
	www.dailycelebrations.com /082003.htm (221 words)

	[minstrels] What Father Knows -- Edgar Guest
		He knows the ins and outs of each And every deep transaction; We look to him for theories, But look to ma for action.
		A delightfully funny poem - Guest takes a simple idea and expands upon it cleverly and with a nice sense of verse.
		Links: We've run two of Guest's poems on Minstrels: poem #496 (with biography) poem #733 My semiregular Poets' Corner plug: http://www.poets-corner.org/ -martin
	www.cs.rice.edu /%7Essiyer/minstrels/poems/922.html (225 words)

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