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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Birth: | 20th August, 1881 |
Death: | 5th August, 1959 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Poet |
Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England. He was a English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. 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, including A Heap o' Livin' and Just Folks.
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