Just Folks
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers who want light English poetry in spare moments
- Learners seeking English reading-aloud material with short, rhyming lines
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American popular literature and everyday life
- Office workers who want warm reading before bed or on the commute
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting deep symbolism or modernist poetic technique
- Researchers needing detailed notes, scholarly introductions, and textual collation
- Readers who prefer the sustained narrative of a novel and dislike the fragmented structure of short poems
Reading tips
- Read two or three poems a day rather than straight through; pick by mood or theme.
- Read aloud to feel Guest's rhyme and rhythm and practice English pronunciation.
- Keep a notebook for lines that strike you and use them as everyday writing material.
- If English is hard, finish a poem first, then look up new words to keep reading smooth.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) was an American poet. Born in Birmingham, England, he moved with his family to Detroit in 1891 and became known as the "People's Poet." He worked for many years at the Detroit Free Press, and his poems drew on everyday themes such as home, motherhood, and hard work. Optimistic, plain-spoken, and easy to recite, his verse won a wide popular readership. His representative works include A Heap o' Livin', The Path to Home, Just Folks, and When Day is Done. Seven of his works are held in this collection. A prolific writer, Guest served as Poet Laureate of Michigan from 1952 until his death in 1959. Public information on his early education and specific writing career remains limited.
