The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 12

The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Volume 12, is part of the standard collected edition of the verse of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), the Boston physician, Harvard anatomy professor, and man of letters. Holmes wrote poetry for over sixty years, from Old Ironsides in 1830, which saved the USS Constitution, through the table-poems of the Breakfast-Table series including The Chambered Nautilus and The Deacon’s Masterpiece, to the elegiac verse of his old age. The collected Poetical Works arranges the full poetic output across multiple volumes, with the occasional poems for civic celebrations, Harvard class reunions, and memorial gatherings that made Holmes the leading public poet of nineteenth-century Boston. Volume 12 belongs to this standard collected arrangement. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.