Edgar Guest Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Bruce Walker

Critical Essay by Bruce Walker

SOURCE: "Edgar A. Guest," in DAC News, Vol. 80, No. 7, October, 1995, pp. 49-51.

In the following excerpt, Walker relies on biographical information provided by Guest's grandson, Edgar A. Guest III, and from contemporaneous newspaper accounts to assess Guest's poetic legacy.

"To his generation he was, through the lilt of his words, a bestower of pleasure, a kindler of hopes and an assuager of sorrow. "—The Detroit Free Press on Edgar A. Guest

A regular contributor to the DAC NEWS and Detroit Athletic Club mainstay, Edgar A. "Eddie" Guest endeared himself to thousands with his insightful and witty, yet down-to-earth verses during his more-than-50-year career as a Detroit Free Press syndicated poet.

To show how much members appreciated Guest, the DAC held annual Edgar A. Guest Nights in the 1940s. Edgar A. Guest III, Guest's grandson, says because he never read his verses aloud at home, the first...
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