The complete online text of Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the — Volume 03: Medical Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and author, contributed to the advancement of medicine and wrote witty essays and popular poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. 29, 1809, scion of a well-established New E...

Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Background For Literature Beginnings: Poetry sprang up slowly in America because the majority of men and women in Virginia, New England, and the other new colonies were simple, hard-working people faced with the hard tasks of a new life. The...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Other Verse Light humor, delicate fancy, and fine strains of sentiment blended together in flawless form are the requirements sometimes fulfilled by Holmes as a writer of verse. Though such achievement seems but a moment's thought, it is very difficult and...