Poem of the Week - At Christmas
Edgar Guest writes about the Spirit of Christmas in At Christmas.
Edgar Albert Guest was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People’s Poet. Guest came to the United States from England in 1891. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. For 40 years, Guest’s sentimental, optimistic poems were widely read throughout North America. From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books.
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