Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
Auteur van The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Over de Auteur
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" toon meer series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. Holmes was a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard College for 35 years. His literary fame came relatively early when in 1830 he published a few lines of verse in a Boston newspaper in which he objected to the dismantling of the frigate Constitution, which had served its nation victoriously in the Tripolitan War and the War of 1812. The poem, "Old Ironside," was a great success, both for Holmes as a poet and in saving the frigate. However, his medical studies left Holmes little leisure for literature for the next 25 years. That changed, however, with the publication of an animated series of essays in the newly founded Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858, and afterwards published in book form as The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). Not only did these essays help secure the magazine's success, but also brought Holmes widespread popularity. Holmes as an essayist has been compared with all of the great writers in that genre, from Michel de Montaigne to Charles Lamb, but his compositions are closer to conversational than to formal prose. Later volumes---The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860), The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872), and Over the Teacups (1891)---extend the autocrat's delightfully egotistical talks, mainly of Boston and New England, in which Holmes was, by turns, brilliantly witty and extremely serious. During these same years, he also wrote three so-called medicated novels: Elsie Venner (1861), The Guardian Angel (1867), and A Mortal Antipathy (1885). Though undistinguished as literary documents, they are important early studies of that "mysterious borderland which lies between physiology and psychology," and they demonstrate that Holmes was advanced in his conception of the causes and progress of neuroses and mental disease. Holmes died quietly after falling asleep in the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 1894. As his son, the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote, "His death was as peaceful as one could wish for those one loves. He simply ceased to breathe." Holmes's memorial service was held at King's Chapel and overseen by Edward Everett Hale. Holmes was buried alongside his wife in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Holmes c. 1879 By Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.), - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003654010/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33849886
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The one hoss shay,: With its companion poems How the old horse won the bet & The broomstick train, (1892) 19 exemplaren
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes In Thirteen Volumes (includes vols. XIV & XV Life and Letters) by Houghton , Mifflin… (2009) 19 exemplaren
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Volume VIII - Pages From an Old Volume of Life (1884) 15 exemplaren
The Breakfast-Table Series: The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table, The Professor At The Breakfast- Table; The Poet At The… (1890) 15 exemplaren
One Hoss Shay and Other Poems 9 exemplaren
The Last Leaf 8 exemplaren
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume XIII. Poetical Works, Volume II. (1888) 8 exemplaren
Mechanism in Thought and Morals 5 exemplaren
The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes; abridgment, introduction and psychiatric annotations (1946) 5 exemplaren
The Poet At The Breakfast Table, Vol. I 4 exemplaren
Opals from Holmes 4 exemplaren
The Iron Gate, & Other Poems 3 exemplaren
The Autocrat of the breakfast-table and The Professor at the breakfast-table, illustrations by H. Pyle 3 exemplaren
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE [with] THE POET OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE [with] THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE… (1891) 3 exemplaren
Astraea : The balance of illusions : a poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14,… (1850) 3 exemplaren
The Professor At The Breakfast Table, Vol. II 2 exemplaren
Pearls From Holmes 2 exemplaren
The Poet at the breakfast-table : he talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader (1900) 2 exemplaren
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Volume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889) (2010) 2 exemplaren
One hoss shay, and other poems 2 exemplaren
Songs of many seasons 2 exemplaren
Old Ironsides (Short Story) 2 exemplaren
Before the curfew 2 exemplaren
Favorite Poems, and My Hunt after "The Captain". 1 exemplaar
The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. In Fourteen Volumes, Vol. XIV. The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. In… (2016) 1 exemplaar
4 unidentified books 1 exemplaar
JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers. Edited and Annotated by Harry C.… (1936) 1 exemplaar
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr. 1 exemplaar
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever: Read Before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and Published at the… (2017) 1 exemplaar
Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle 1 exemplaar
An Introductory Lecture, Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847 (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplaar
The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. III 1 exemplaar
The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Every Man His Own Boswell [ The… (1904) 1 exemplaar
Holmes Leaflets: Poems And Prose Passages From The Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1881) (2010) 1 exemplaar
Holmes's Works 1 exemplaar
Memorials Of The Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Of Sarah Swain Hathaway And John Murray Forbes: Feb. 8, 1834-1894 (2017) 1 exemplaar
Holmes' Early Poems 1 exemplaar
Old Ironsides [poem] 1 exemplaar
Modern Classics; Selections From the Breakfast Table Series, and Pages From an Old Volume of Life (1883) 1 exemplaar
My Hunt After the Captain 1 exemplaar
Life and Letters 2 [Works XV] 1 exemplaar
Dead, Yet Living: An Address Delivered At Keene, New Hampshire, Memorial Day, May 30, 1884 (1884) (2009) 1 exemplaar
Oliver Wendell Holmes papers 1 exemplaar
Urania: a rhymed lesson 1 exemplaar
An Excerpt from a Speech 1 exemplaar
The Professor At The Breakfast Table, Vol. I 1 exemplaar
POEMS BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (AMERICAN AUTHORS IN PROSE AND POETRY) 1 exemplaar
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume VI. The Guardian Angel. 1 exemplaar
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume IX. Medical Essays. 1 exemplaar
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume VII. A Mortal Antipathy. 1 exemplaar
Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions 1 exemplaar
DISSERTATION ON ACUTE PERICARDITIS 1 exemplaar
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- 1809-08-29
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1894-10-07
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- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- USA
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Paris, France
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- Phillips Academy (1825)
Harvard College (MD)
École de Médecine (1833) - Beroepen
- professor (Anatomy and Physiology)
physician
writer
author
poet
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- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (son)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
James, Henry, Sr. (friend)
Jackson, Ameila Lee (wife) - Organisaties
- Fireside Poets
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology (Harvard)
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910) - Korte biografie
- While dean, Holmes attempted to admit the first African-Americans and the first woman to the Harvard Medical School.
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