"Education"

Poem

By: Arthur Guiterman

Date: 1935

Source: Guiterman, Arthur. "Education." Published in Death and General Putnam and 101 Other Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1935. Reprinted in Unseen Harvests. Fuess, Claude M., and Emory S. Basford, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1947, 351–52.

About the Author: Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) was born in Vienna, Austria. A poet, editor, humorist, journalist, and librettist, he wrote thousands of poems for newspapers and magazines, publishing several collections in his lifetime. Guiterman was best known for his humorous verse.

Introduction

Guiterman graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891. He accepted a clerical job with the trade publication Jewelers' Weekly and went on to work as an editor at Woman's Home Companion and the Literary Digest. His poetry did not gain recognition...

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