The complete online text of Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys 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...

The failures of Oliver Wendell Holmes are rooted in his limited views and interests. Holmes' legacy is minimal, leaving a lifetime of work with no relevance for future generations. His concentration on an already less important common law limited his examination of constitutional issues....

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been "regarded as a great progressive, a liberal, a harsh totalitarian, a positivist, an early realist, an eternal soldier, and lately as a utilitarian and pragmatist. Some have found his ideas hopelessly contradictory; others have chimed to have detected...