“We have been building a home for the last fifteen years, but it begins…” — Edgar A. Guest

“We have been building a home for the last fifteen years, but it begins to look now as though it will not be finished for many years to come.”

Presenting home as something created gradually through shared life rather than construction alone · Prose memoir, Making the House a Home, 1922

Edgar A. Guest

About Edgar A. Guest

20 August 1881–5 August 1959

Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England, on 20 August 1881, and died in Detroit, Michigan, on 5 August 1959, fifteen days before his seventy-eighth birthday. During much of his long life, he was among the most familiar poets in the United States. His name appeared daily in newspapers, his verses were…

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