Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (1809-1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer. He was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. In 1833 Holmes attended the famed Ecole de Médecine in Paris. He pursued his medical studies in the Parisian hospital system. He first attained national prominence with his poem Old Ironsides. One of his most popular works was The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1857). He was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. He contributed poems and essays to the Atlantic Monthly from its inception, and also published novels. Holmes is also known for his writing of several beautiful hymns. In 1846, Holmes coined the word anesthesia. He also developed the popular model of the stereoscope. Amongst his other works are Elsie Venner (1861), The Guardian Angel (1867), The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872), John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir (1879), Medical Essays (1883), A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio (1885) and Over the Teacups (1891).

Product Description: Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous legal scholar. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in 1930.

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Product Description: Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous legal scholar. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in 1930.

Product Description: Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous legal scholar. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in 1930.

Product Description: Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous legal scholar. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in 1930.

Product Description: Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous legal scholar. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in 1930.

Product Description: The Guardian Angel

Short excerpt: The letter is full of fiery eloquence, now and then extravagant and even violent in expression, but throbbing with a generous heat which shows the excitable spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country and does not wish to keep his temper when its acts make him ashamed of it.

Product Description: A Mortal Antipathy

Product Description: Elsie Venner

Product Description: Pages from an old volume of life

Product Description: Medical Essays

The Professor at the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., following up on his successful first volume, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table."

Product Description: The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths. Negatives multiplied into each other change their sign and become positives...read more

Product Description: Over the teacups

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'T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers All the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried men's souls;" When I talk of Whig and Tory, when I tell the Rebel story, To you the words are ashes, but to me they're burning coals. I had heard the muskets' rattle of the April running battle; Lord Percy's hunted soldiers, I can see their red coats still; But a deadly chill comes o'er me, as the day looms up before me, When a thousand men lay bleeding on the slopes of Bunker's Hill.

Product Description: THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

Product Description: MY aunt! my dear unmarried aunt! Long years have o'er her flown; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone; I know it hurts her,--though she looks As cheerful as she can; Her waist is ampler than her life, For life is but a span.