A Heap O' Livin'

A Heap O' Livin' PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A Heap O' Livin'

A Heap O' Livin' PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A Heap O' Livin'.

A Heap O' Livin'. PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Making the House a Home

Making the House a Home PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Just Folks

Just Folks PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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The Path to Home

The Path to Home PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A Heap O' Livin (Esprios Classics)

A Heap O' Livin (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Edgar A Guest
Publisher: Blurb
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Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life. His family moved from England to Detroit, Michigan, where Guest lived until he died. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.

Just Glad Things

Just Glad Things PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves PDF Author: Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674035127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487

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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 meaning in a poet's words. Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure. Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Rhymes of Childhood

Rhymes of Childhood PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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When Day is Done

When Day is Done PDF Author: Edgar Albert Guest
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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