A gifted writer of almost all major literary forms, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was one of the celebrated New England “Fireside Poets”. He achieved fame writing poetry and comic verse, for which he won early national acclaim with the publication of “Old Ironsides”, rousing public sentiment against the destruction of the USS Constitution. Beginning in 1850’s, he contributed his “Breakfast-Table” essays to ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ and published “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”, one of the most popular books of the time, written in conversational style and displaying his unique learning and wit. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Holmes’ complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Holmes’ life and works
* Concise introduction to Holmes’ life and poetry
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Holmes’ complete novels
* Rare essays, often missed out of collections
* The complete “Breakfast-Table” books
* The author’s celebrated memoir ‘Our Hundred Days in Europe’
* Features a bonus biography — discover Holmes’ literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Brief Introduction: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911) by John Torrey Morse
Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Novels
Elsie Venner (1861)
The Guardian Angel (1867)
A Mortal Antipathy (1885)
The Non-Fiction
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860)
Mechanism in Thought and Morals (1871)
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872)
John Lothrop Motley (1876)
Medical Essays (1883)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884)
Over the Teacups (1891)
Miscellaneous Essays
The Memoir
Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887)
The Biography
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1898) by Leslie Stephen
