Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England, to Edwin Guest, a speculative broker in copper, and Julia Wayne. The economic downturn of the late 1880s led to Edwin's business failure ...

Edgar A. Guest, a popular poet of the World War I and Great Depression eras, died in his sleep on August 5, 1959, at age seventy-seven. The cause of death was determined to be a cerebral ...

2024年10月8日 · The poet Edgar A. Guest was known for publishing his accessible, sentimental poems in newspapers and was one of the most popular poets of the World War I and Great Depression eras of US history ...

2023年12月8日 · Edgar A. Guest was himself endowed by the Almighty with the equipment necessary to be one of the great American poets. And he used that equipment to the very best of his ability, but no further.

2024年10月8日 · Edgar A. Guest's poem "Be a Friend" emphasizes the value of friendship over material wealth. The poem elaborates that being a friend doesn't require money but involves extending kindness ...

2024年10月8日 · In Edgar A. Guest's poem See It Through, figurative language includes personification, metaphor, alliteration, and repetition. Troubles are personified as adversaries to confront, and "nerve" is ...

2024年10月8日 · The poem "Equipment" by Edgar Guest employs several poetic devices including apostrophe, anaphora, allusion, and repetition. Apostrophe is seen in the direct address to "my lad," while anaphora is ...

Through the poet’s devoted eyes, those same readers watched the growth and development of a son, another Edgar Albert Guest, nicknamed Bud, from colic to college. Included in the family ...

Edgar A. Guest’s prose works resulted largely from his readers’ demands for information about his personal life. Thus, what he did produce in that genre tended to be heavily autobiographical ...

2024年10月8日 · The central figure of speech which runs through the poem is paradox.The man in the poem did the thing that couldn't be done and so, says the poet in the last line, can you. Since the thing ends up ...