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.

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 poem by Edgar Guest, “Sermons We See,” explores how people live their lives and how everyday actions serve as sermons of our true nature and beliefs. The poem is a lesson in the power of our mind, ...

Dear Readers: Merry Christmas. How glorious this world would be if we could live each and every day according to Edgar Guest's sentiments in the following piece: "At Christmas" by Edgar Guest A man is ...

Princeton students once voted him the world’s worst poet, and a jeering couplet hounded him for years: “I’d rather flunk my Wassermann test/Than read a poem by Edgar Guest.”* Such insults missed their ...

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 ...

A new era is born.

Books by two authors who were immensely popular in their day are up for bids in the silent auction of old and rare books sponsored by the Friends of the A.K. Smiley Public Library. The authors are the ...