Edgar Guest (Noun)
Meaning
United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Edgar Guest's poems often appeared in American newspapers during the 1920s and 1930s.
- He worked for many years at the Detroit Free Press where Edgar Guest got a reputation for warm folksy humor in poetry and commentary.
- Poems like 'When Mothers' in newspapers the reader through "pathetic reflections the a single or loving married devoted mOther over household guest but alone then dead love".
- Edgar Guest eventually became known as the "People's Poet".
- Edgar Guest was also a defender of the family home as the nucleus of social and they cannot be called just.