He may be largely forgotten today, at least partly because his approach to dialect writing is to our eyes and ears “close to unreadable.” But the online journal Slate has a reminder from poet Robert ...

A feature once common to almost every newspaper in the country in the first half of the 20th century has long disappeared from today’s newspapers. The newspaper poem could be found on editorial pages ...

The most famous poet in American history sold a million copies of his book, back in the days when a million was a lot. He had his own weekly radio show and even, for a while, his own television show.

Edgar Guest was born on Aug. 20, 1881, in Birmingham, England. His collections of poetry include "Just Folks" (The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917) and "When Day Is Done" (The Reilly & Lee Co., 1921). He died ...

“It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.” The above words made Edgar Guest famous, but today’s Catholic families should remember Guest for another reason: His poetry is strikingly ...

Television, desperate for enough material to fill its broadcast hours, has finally discovered an almost inexhaustible source. The verbal reservoir: 69-year-old Edgar A. Guest, “poet of the plain ...