Poet at the Breakfast Table, His Talks with His Fellow Boarders and the Reader

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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1872. A collection of verse from the American author, physician and father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He turned from a career as a general practitioner to the academic. He was also a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly (which he named), penning the famous series of Breakfast-table sketches, which are imaginary conversations at a Boston boardinghouse and reflective of Holmes's opinions, charm, and wit. He began writing poetry when he was attending college at Cambridge. His first important poem, Old Ironsides, was a protest against the scrapping of the fighting ship Constitution. Though the poetical side of the author's nature was intended to have full play in The Poet at the Breakfast Table, and though there is the same sparkle of style and the same quaint turns of thought and expression, both theme and treatment are of a graver and more impersonal character than in the earlier Autocrat at the Breakfast Table and the Professor at the Breakfast Table. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Release date Australia

September 10th, 2010

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Kessinger Publishing

Pages

424

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing

Dimensions

229x152x22

ISBN-13

9781162777931

Product ID

9342027

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