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Edgar A. Guest
When an enthusiastic admirer asked Eddie Guest, "What is the best thing you have ever done?" he replied, "Madam, I hope I haven't done it yet!" Probably this answer best illustrates Eddie's twinkling sense of humor, his refreshing modesty, and his all-pervading optimism. In these days of confused thinking and chaotic world conditions, it is truly inspiring to read of a life which epitomizes the homely virtues and simple verities, plus a jovial and robust love of living, about which Eddie Guest has written for so many years. And it is by no means accidental that his biographer ends this book with a sentence often on Eddie's lips: "It's been great fun—all of it!" "His editor and longtime friend Royce Howes has written the biography Guest deserves...Royce Howes has done a biography of a likeable and human man in not too adulatory a fashion; and it is readable."—The Los Angeles Times "Hearty friendship and mutuality of association combined with author competence have produced a book which, in the most vital sense, will be of interest to all Americans."—The Yuma Daily Sun
Songs of Ourselves
Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find m...
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