“With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin
Without any doubting or quit it,
He started to sing, as he tackled the thing
that couldn’t be done, and he did it.”
~ Edgar Guest
*Edgar Albert Guest
Born: August 20, 1881 Birmingham, England
Died: August 5, 1959 Detroit, Michigan
A prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People’s Poet.
In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
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