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Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809–1894
A lively voice in 19th-century America, he balanced a medical career with a gift for poetry, essays, and sharp humor. Best remembered as a member of the Fireside Poets, he also helped shape public debate with works that were both learned and warmly readable.
36 Audiobooks
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quotes and Images From the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian Angel
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Elsie Venner
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our Hundred Days in Europe
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11 Poems from the Teacups Series
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Mortal Antipathy
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02 Additional Poems (1837-1848)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 03: Medical Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 12 Verses from the Oldest Portfolio
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 08 Bunker Hill and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 1
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Over the Teacups
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 10: Before the Curfew
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05 Poems of the Class of '29 (1851-1889)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06 Poems from the Breakfast Table Series
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; A Collection of Essays, 1857-1881
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stories of Romance
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Allan Cunningham, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, John Wilson
The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09 The Iron Gate and Other Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
About the author
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1809, he became known as an American physician, teacher, poet, and essayist whose career was closely tied to Boston and Harvard. Alongside his work in medicine, he built a wide readership through writing that mixed wit, observation, and a strong sense of public life.
His poem "Old Ironsides" brought him early fame, and his Breakfast-Table essays later made him especially popular with magazine readers. He is often grouped with the Fireside Poets, a circle of writers whose poems were widely read in 19th-century American homes.
Holmes also earned respect in medicine for his teaching and for speaking out on the contagious nature of puerperal fever. He died in Boston in 1894, leaving behind a reputation as a rare figure who moved easily between science and literature.