Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born on 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died on 7 October 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts. Trained as a physician, he was a Professor of Medicine first at Dartmouth and then at Harvard University. His literary work was highly popular in his day, and he is now known as a member of the Fireside poets, a group that included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell, with Ralph Waldo Emerson as a more marginal member.
PUBLICATIONS
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell.
1858. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909. 292 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215458.
The Claims of Dentistry: An Address Delivered at the Commencement Exercises of the D ental Department at Harvard University Februrary 14, 1872.
Boston: Harriet Newell Lowell Society for Dental Research, 1918-1919. 24 pp
https://archive.org/details/claimsofdentistr00holm_0/page/n1/mode/2up.
The Collegian.
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1830. 309 pp
https://archive.org/details/collegian00univgoog.
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 1895.
Current and counter-currents in medical science with other addresses and essays.
Boston: Tickner and Fields, 1861.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Holmes+OW+Current+and+counter-currents+in+medical+science+with+other+addresses+and+essays+by+Oliver+Wendell+Holmes.+Google+Books.+Boston:+Tickner+and+Fields,+1861+.
"Doings of the sun-beam", The Atlantic Monthly, volume 12 (July 1863)
Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 338 pp
https://archive.org/details/elsievenner02holm.
The Gleaner, Or, Selections in Poetry and Prose; from the Periodical Press.
Boston: Office of the New England Galaxy, 1830.
The Guardian Angel. 1867. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893. 448 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184962/page/n3/mode/2up.
Homeopathy, and Its Kindred Delusions.
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842.
https://archive.org/details/homoepathyitskin00holm . 88 pp
The Iron Gate, and Other Poems.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1880.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924022056059/page/n7/mode/2up. 94 pp
John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir
1879. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1898. 298 pp
https://archive.org/details/cu31924022150563.
“Jonathan Edwards: An Essay.”
The International Review. New York and Chicago: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1880.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=KkctAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Medical Essays: 1842-82.
1882. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1883. 483 pp
https://archive.org/details/writingsoliverw25holmgoog.
A Mortal Antipathy.
1885. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891. 314 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184839.
“Oration Before the New England Society” (1856)
Mechanism in Thought and Morals: With Notes and Afterthoughts.
Second edition. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871.141 pp
https://archive.org/details/mechanisminthou03holmgoog.
Our Hundred Days in Europe.
1887. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895. 307 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182874.
Over the Teacups.
1891. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895. 322 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184918/page/n1/mode/2up.
Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887)
Pages from an Old Volume of Life: A Collection of Essays.
1883. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891. 443 pp
https://archive.org/details/pagesfromanoldv00holmgoog/page/n2/mode/2up.
Poems.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Co., 1836. 190 pp
https://archive.org/details/poe0holm.
The Poet at the Break-fast Table.
1872. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891. 370 pp
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184997.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table.
1860. London: Chatto & Windus, 1870. 304 pp
https://archive.org/details/professoratbreak00holmiala.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1885. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1912. 482 pp
https://archive.org/details/ralphwaldoemerso00holmuoft/page/n9/mode/2up
Songs in Many Keys.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. 346 pp
https://archive.org/details/songsinmanykeys00holmuoft.
Soundings from the Atlantic.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 512 pp
https://archive.org/details/soundingsfromatl00holm_0/page/n7/mode/2up.
"The Stereoscope and the Stereograph",
The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 6 (1859)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1859/06/the-stereoscope-and-the-stereograph/303361/
"Sun-painting and sun-sculpture",
The Atlantic Monthly, volume 8 (July 1861).