SOURCE: A review of A Heap o' Livin', in The Dial, Vol. 61, November 2, 1916, p. 355.

In the following excerpt, a reviewer warmly praises Guest's verse.

There is one glory of the new poetry, and another of the old-fashioned sort, and another (it may be) of the kind that is neither poetry nor prose; for one form of verse differeth from another in glory. Without instituting invidious comparisons, one may heartily commend the style of verse that flows so readily from the pen of Mr. Edgar A. Guest, and one may at the same time rejoice that he has found leisure to provide rhymes for all his lines. He chooses the old familiar themes of domestic joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of life, the high hopes and the grievous disappointments common to our lot. Those who like Will Carleton and James Whitcomb Riley will not dislike Mr. Guest...