Edgar Guest: "The most famous poet in American history..."

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/p...op_music_.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Guest


Edgar Guest lived at 1500 Atkinson. We would have been neighbors had he lived ~20 years longer.

My old college poetry prof would have said that Mr. Guest wrote verse not poetry, but nowadays, every other person thinks they're a poet. I don't think Guest's writing is as well known today as Ogden Nash's "I never saw a purple cow..."

My old Prof said, " I'd rather flunk the Wasserman Test, than read a poem by Edgar Guest."

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My old Prof said, " I'd rather flunk the Wasserman Test, than read a poem by Edgar Guest."

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good ol' Dorothy. You're right, Guest just seems to have fallen out of style...I had no idea he was related to Judith Guest or that she went to Dondero, just like Glenn Frey &...Thomas Stewart?
"Thomas Stewart World traveler, and is based somewhere in Detroits surrounding areas. Graduated from Dondero Highschool in 87' and met his smoking hot wife there. YEAH BABY"

gotta love Wiki

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My old Prof said, " I'd rather flunk the Wasserman Test, than read a poem by Edgar Guest."

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I liked his poems, esp. when read by his son Bud Guest [[Edgar A. Guest II) on the
WJR radio program, "The Sunny Side of the Street":

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/198...longtime-radio

The Guests [[Sr. and II.) were frequent visitors to our town in the Thumb. My favorite
poem of his [[I have several books of 'em) is "When Father Shook the Stove":

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/52025/

Sweet memories :)

And a good friend of Yale professor William Lyon Phelps.

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And a good friend of Yale professor William Lyon Phelps.

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Yes!! They spent a lot of time together at the Phelps residence in Huron City:

http://huroncitymuseums.org/about.htm
http://huroncitymuseums.org/church.htm <= Connection between Phelps & Hubbard families
http://huroncitymuseums.org/sevengables.htm

My apologies for this reply [[not really directly related to Detroit), but there is an
indirect relationship between Huron City and Henry Ford's Greenfield Village...
very peaceful and pleasant "living history" villages ... some early ones of that kind
in the US. The area families [[Hubbard, Pack, Carrington, Stafford, Jenks, Hopson,
us'ns, et al.) knew each other well - sturdy pioneer types, if ya know what i mean...

Henry Ford Sr. summered in our little town early on, a few houses down the road.
He was very much taken with Huron City and the efforts to preserve it... Of course,
he had many conversations with the early "preservationists" such as John D. Rock-
efeller Jr. [[Williamsburg VA), so the Hubbards were not his only influences.

Also, two of my favorite people - my paternal uncle and aunt - are buried in New
River Cemetery, which is close to Huron City. Many connections...

Enough garrulous reminiscing from ye wobbly olde "pioneer"!