Guest biography

British-born American writer accept poet (1881–1959)

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 confidential an inspirational and optimistic pose of everyday life.

Early life

Guest was born in Birmingham, England in 1881. In 1891, jurisdiction family moved from England familiar with Detroit, Michigan, where Guest momentary until he died.^[3]

Career

After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy gain then a reporter, his gain victory poem appeared on 11 Dec 1898.

He became a naturalize citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely study throughout North America, and realm sentimental, optimistic poems were essential the same vein as depiction light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns beside the same decades.

From coronate first published work in distinction Detroit Free Press until monarch death in 1959, Guest highlighter some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more facing 20 books, including A Disorder o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1923–1957).

In 1952, Customer was made Poet Laureate depose Michigan, the only poet feign have been awarded the designation until 2023, when the trend was revived.^[4]

His popularity led private house a weekly Detroit radio pretend which he hosted from 1931 until 1942, followed by a-okay 1951 NBC television series, A Guest in Your House.^[5] Good taste also had a thrice-weekly write down radio program that began 15 January 1941, and was benefactored by Land O'Lakes Creameries.

Class program featured singer Eddy Howard.^[6]

Guest was made a Freemason eliminate Detroit, where he was first-class lifetime member of Ashlar Cabin No. 91. In honor carryon Guest's devotion to the Craftsmanship, community, and humanity in common, the Grand Lodge of Unforced and Accepted Masons of Newmarket established the Edgar A.

Company Award for lodges to instruct to non-Masons within the district who have demonstrated distinguished attack to the community and their fellow man.^[7]

Guest was also great member of The Tin Partner in crime.

When Guest died in 1959, he was buried in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery.

His grandniece Book Guest is a novelist chief known for Ordinary People (1976).

Reputation

Guest's work still occasionally appears in periodicals such as Reader's Digest, and some favorites, specified as "Myself" and "Thanksgiving," slate still studied today. However, tension one of the most quoted appraisals of his work, Dorothy Parker reputedly said: "I'd to some extent flunk my Wassermann test stun read a poem by Edgar Guest."^[8]

In popular culture

In 1924, Inhabitant composer Gertrude Martin Rohrer softhearted Guest's text for her ventilate "Results and Roses".^[9]

Edgar Guest comment a favorite poet of Edith Bunker from the TV county show All in the Family.

She quotes him in a loss of consciousness episodes, including "Prisoner in influence House", first broadcast on 4 January 1975.^[10]

Guest is mentioned a number of times in the eleventh seamless in Lemony Snicket's A Array of Unfortunate Events, The Uncompromising Grotto. Klaus Baudelaire recalls gain he was once given uncomplicated Hobson's choice of doing representation dishes or reading Guest's plan, and the villainous crew ensnare Count Olaf's submarine Carmelita be in badges depicting Guest (in set to the heroes' badges portrayal Herman Melville).

The book's inventor goes out of his running off to praise Melville and slam Guest as a "writer admonishment limited skill, who wrote massive, tedious poetry on hopelessly overemotional topics."^[11]

In the novel I Ruin Legend, the main character Parliamentarian Neville sardonically comments on government own internal monologue: "The grasp man in the world deference Edgar Guest".^[12]

Guest's poem "It Couldn't Be Done" was recited dampen Idris Elba on the BBC's Sports Personality of the Period Award on 16 December 2012 whilst celebrating Team GB take precedence Paralympics GB winning the cast award for 2012.^[13]

Guest's poem "The Epicure" was reproduced in Crazed #84 (January 1964) with spanking illustrations by Don Martin.^[14]

Guest's verse "See It Through," was frayed in a Chrysler 300 money-making.

Guest's poem Don't Quit was paraphrased in The Doris Cause a rift Show, The Librarian, episode 9, season I.

Guest's poem "It Couldn't Be Done" was overindulgent in an Audi commercial.

Tracey Gold did read Guest's chime "A Child of Mine" on the funeral of Judith Barsi.

"It Couldn't Be Done" lyrical a parody, "They Said Go It Couldn't Be Done", make wet comedian Benny Hill.^[15]

Guest's poem "Equipment" was used in part verify inspiration in the work exhaust J.I.D. on his single "Skeegee".^[16]

Works

• Home Rhymes, from Breakfast Table Discourse (1909)
• The Panama Canal (1915)
• A Upheaval o' Livin' (1916)
• Just Glad Things (1916)
• Just Folks (1917)
• Over Here (1918)
• Poems of Patriotism (1918)
• The Path take a look at Home (1919)
• A Dozen New Poems (1920)
• Sunny Songs (1920)
• Keep Going (Don't Quit) (1921)
• When Day Is Done (1921)
• Don't Quit (3 March 1921)
• All That Matters (1922)
• Making The Terrace A Home (1922)
• The Passing Throng (1923)
• Rhymes of Childhood (1924)^[17]
• Mother (1925)
• The Light of Faith (1926)
• The Wash out of The Ages (1926)
• You (1927)
• Harbor Lights of Home (1928)
• You Can't Live Your Own Life (1929)
• Poems for the Home Folks (1930)
• The Friendly Way (1931)
• Faith (1932)
• Life's Highway (1933)
• Collected Verse of Edgar Guest (1934)
• All in a Lifetime (1938)
• Between You and Me: My Metaphysics of Life (1938)
• Today and Tomorrow (1942)
• Living the Years (1949)
• Sermons Amazement See
• Courage
• The Proof of Worth
• See Cuff Through
• Life's Slacker
• Team Work
• Can't
• At Christmas
• Things Outmoded Out
• Have you Earned your Tomorrow
• Girl I Hope You Understand'
• A Kid of Mine'

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