var s_account="msnportalencarta"; Print Edgar A. Guest Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Edgar A. Guest Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), American poet, born in Birmingham, England. He went to the U.S. in 1891 and became a citizen in 1902. Starting in 1895 Guest wrote a column in the Detroit Free Press, and his verse and sketches of a simple, colloquial quality won him a wide audience. The verse, âHome,â beginning âIt takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home,â was one of his earliest successes. His books include A Heap o' Livin' Over Here When Day Is Done Rhymes of Childhood All in a Lifetime (1938), and Living Years "Edgar A. Guest," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007 | |
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