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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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American poet and physician (1809–1894)

Born 1809
Died 1894

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  • Cover of: The autocrat of the breakfast-table
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  • Cover of: The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris
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  • Cover of: Poems
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  • Cover of: The poet at the breakfast-table: his talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader
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  • Cover of: Elsie Venner: a romance of Destiny
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  • Cover of: Medical essays: 1842-1882
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  • Cover of: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Cover of: The guardian angel
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  • Cover of: Mark Twain's Library of Humour
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  • Cover of: Over the teacups
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  • Cover of: Our hundred days in Europe
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  • Cover of: A mortal antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio
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  • Cover of: The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    First published in 1887 — 19 editions
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  • Cover of: John Lothrop Motley.: A memoir.
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  • Cover of: Writings.
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  • Cover of: The best American humorous short stories
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  • Cover of: Commentaries on American Law: 12th-14th Ed. Ed. by O.W.Holmes Jr. & John M ...
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    First published in 1901 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Pages From An Old Volume Of Life: A Collection Of Essays, 1857-1881

    First published in 1891 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The United States in literature
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  • Cover of: Pages from an old volume of life: a collection of essays, 1857-1881
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American poet and physician (1809–1894)

Born 1809
Died 1894

Subjects

Poetry, History, Modern Literature, American poetry, Fiction, Medicine, Medicine in Literature, Classic Literature, Poetry as Topic, Medical Philosophy, American literature, Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, Law, Medical Education, American wit and humor, Fourth of July orations, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, short story, Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775, Description and travel, English poetry, Harvard Medical School, Law, united states, Literature: Classics, Medicine in literature

Places

United States, Massachusetts, Alabama, England, Missouri, Owl Creek Bridge, kingdom by the sea, Boston, Boston (Mass.), Florida, Fountain of Youth, Mallard residence, New England, Saint Louis, St. Louis

People

John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Amanda Wingfield, Annabel Lee, Aylmer, Ethelred, Georgiana, Jim O'Connor, Laura Wingfield, Madeline Usher, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Peyton Farquhar, Roderick Usher, Tom Wingfield, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Brently Mallard, Charles de Secondat Montesquieu baron de (1689-1755), Colonel Killigrew, Dr. Heidegger, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), George Parkman (1790-1849), George William Curtis (1824-1892), James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)

Time

Civil War, 1861-1865, 19th century, 1861-65, 1861-1865, 19th Century

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Alternative names

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Oliver, Wendell Holmes
  • OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  • Wendell Oliver Holmes
  • Oliver W. Holmes
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

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August 16, 2021 Edited by LibraryDude33 Added new photo
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
May 15, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot merge authors
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import