Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Ms., 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, supra. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and e ayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life was almost entirely pa ed. From 1847 to 1882 he was profe or of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions, and is more or le ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and his e ays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Profe or at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical E ays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. See Lives by W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impre ions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896. Hou.