Definition of Edgar Guest

1. Noun. United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959).

Exact synonyms: Edgar Albert Guest, Guest
Generic synonyms: Journalist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edgar Guest

Eden
Edenic
Edenization
Edenize
Edenized
Edenizes
Edenizing
Edenlike
Eder-Pustow bougie
Ederle
Edessa
Edgar
Edgar Albert Guest
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Douglas Adrian
Edgar Guest (current term)
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Wallace
Edgard Lawrence Doctorow
Edgard Varese
Edge Island
Ediacaran
Edinburgh
Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Edington
Edirne
Edison
Edith
Edith Cavell

Literary usage of Edgar Guest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Poets of Today by Howard Willard Cook (1918)
"Edgar Guest There is nothing pretentious about the writings of Edgar Guest, but he handles so ably themes of everyday that he has been rightly called "the ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Guest, Edgar A., Home Rhymes. Just Glad Things. Edgar Guest. Hasluck, PN. Violins and other stringed instruments. ..."

3. The Bookman's Manual: A Guide to Literature by Bessie Graham (1921)
"Imitators of "The Hoosier Poet" have been many, Sam Walter Foss and Edgar Guest being the best known. No one can be said to have inherited Riley's public ..."

4. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1920)
"There were a few stanzas in the Boston Herald yesterday, written by Edgar Guest, that convey something of the sentiment of the letters that come from the ..."

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