The complete online text of Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Introduction A Biographical Sketch: Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, to a family of ministers and merchants. He attended Boston Latin School (1812-1817) and Harvard College (1817-1821), during which periods he kept journals and won some prizes for...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Poet: Emerson's main notions about poetry are to be found in his essay "The Poet," which contains many valuable flashes of wisdom about poetry. First of these is his assertion that there is complete naturalness in being a poet: "In...

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Educational textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. agreed Monday to buy the remaining U.S. units of scientific and medical publisher Reed Elsevier for $4 billion in cash and stock, creating what could become the largest K-12 publisher in the country in terms of market share.The Boston-based...