Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
Auteur de The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
A propos de l'auteur
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" afficher plus series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. Holmes was a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard College for 35 years. His literary fame came relatively early when in 1830 he published a few lines of verse in a Boston newspaper in which he objected to the dismantling of the frigate Constitution, which had served its nation victoriously in the Tripolitan War and the War of 1812. The poem, "Old Ironside," was a great success, both for Holmes as a poet and in saving the frigate. However, his medical studies left Holmes little leisure for literature for the next 25 years. That changed, however, with the publication of an animated series of essays in the newly founded Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858, and afterwards published in book form as The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). Not only did these essays help secure the magazine's success, but also brought Holmes widespread popularity. Holmes as an essayist has been compared with all of the great writers in that genre, from Michel de Montaigne to Charles Lamb, but his compositions are closer to conversational than to formal prose. Later volumes---The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860), The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872), and Over the Teacups (1891)---extend the autocrat's delightfully egotistical talks, mainly of Boston and New England, in which Holmes was, by turns, brilliantly witty and extremely serious. During these same years, he also wrote three so-called medicated novels: Elsie Venner (1861), The Guardian Angel (1867), and A Mortal Antipathy (1885). Though undistinguished as literary documents, they are important early studies of that "mysterious borderland which lies between physiology and psychology," and they demonstrate that Holmes was advanced in his conception of the causes and progress of neuroses and mental disease. Holmes died quietly after falling asleep in the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 1894. As his son, the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote, "His death was as peaceful as one could wish for those one loves. He simply ceased to breathe." Holmes's memorial service was held at King's Chapel and overseen by Edward Everett Hale. Holmes was buried alongside his wife in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Holmes c. 1879 By Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.), - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003654010/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33849886
Œuvres de Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The one hoss shay,: With its companion poems How the old horse won the bet & The broomstick train, (1892) 19 exemplaires
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes In Thirteen Volumes (includes vols. XIV & XV Life and Letters) by Houghton , Mifflin… (2009) 19 exemplaires
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Volume VIII - Pages From an Old Volume of Life (1884) 15 exemplaires
The Breakfast-Table Series: The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table, The Professor At The Breakfast- Table; The Poet At The… (1890) 15 exemplaires
One Hoss Shay and Other Poems 9 exemplaires
The Last Leaf 8 exemplaires
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume XIII. Poetical Works, Volume II. (1888) 8 exemplaires
Mechanism in Thought and Morals 5 exemplaires
The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes; abridgment, introduction and psychiatric annotations (1946) 5 exemplaires
The Poet At The Breakfast Table, Vol. I 4 exemplaires
Opals from Holmes 4 exemplaires
The Iron Gate, & Other Poems 3 exemplaires
Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley : two memoirs 3 exemplaires
The Autocrat of the breakfast-table and The Professor at the breakfast-table, illustrations by H. Pyle 3 exemplaires
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE [with] THE POET OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE [with] THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE… (1891) 3 exemplaires
Astraea : The balance of illusions : a poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14,… (1850) 3 exemplaires
The Professor At The Breakfast Table, Vol. II 2 exemplaires
Pearls From Holmes 2 exemplaires
The Poet at the breakfast-table : he talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader (1900) 2 exemplaires
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Volume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889) (2010) 2 exemplaires
One hoss shay, and other poems 2 exemplaires
Songs of many seasons 2 exemplaires
Old Ironsides (Short Story) 2 exemplaires
Before the curfew 2 exemplaires
Favorite Poems, and My Hunt after "The Captain". 1 exemplaire
The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. In Fourteen Volumes, Vol. XIV. The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. In… (2016) 1 exemplaire
4 unidentified books 1 exemplaire
JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers. Edited and Annotated by Harry C.… (1936) 1 exemplaire
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr. 1 exemplaire
Selections from the poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 exemplaire
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever: Read Before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and Published at the… (2017) 1 exemplaire
Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle 1 exemplaire
Selections from the Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 exemplaire
An Introductory Lecture, Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847 (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. III 1 exemplaire
The new century and the new building of the Harvard Medical School, 1783-1883 : addresses and exercises at the one… 1 exemplaire
The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Every Man His Own Boswell [ The… (1904) 1 exemplaire
Holmes Leaflets: Poems And Prose Passages From The Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1881) (2010) 1 exemplaire
Holmes's Works 1 exemplaire
Memorials Of The Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Of Sarah Swain Hathaway And John Murray Forbes: Feb. 8, 1834-1894 (2017) 1 exemplaire
Holmes' Early Poems 1 exemplaire
Old Ironsides [poem] 1 exemplaire
Modern Classics; Selections From the Breakfast Table Series, and Pages From an Old Volume of Life (1883) 1 exemplaire
My Hunt After the Captain 1 exemplaire
Life and Letters 2 [Works XV] 1 exemplaire
Dead, Yet Living: An Address Delivered At Keene, New Hampshire, Memorial Day, May 30, 1884 (1884) (2009) 1 exemplaire
Oliver Wendell Holmes papers 1 exemplaire
Urania: a rhymed lesson 1 exemplaire
An Excerpt from a Speech 1 exemplaire
The Professor At The Breakfast Table, Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Border lines of knowledge in some provinces of medical science an introductory lecture, delivered before the medical… 1 exemplaire
Selections From the Poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 exemplaire
Selections from the writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arranged under the days of the year, and accompanied by… 1 exemplaire
POEMS BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (AMERICAN AUTHORS IN PROSE AND POETRY) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume VI. The Guardian Angel. 1 exemplaire
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume IX. Medical Essays. 1 exemplaire
The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat Edition. Volume VII. A Mortal Antipathy. 1 exemplaire
Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions 1 exemplaire
DISSERTATION ON ACUTE PERICARDITIS 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1809-08-29
- Date de décès
- 1894-10-07
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
- Études
- Phillips Academy (1825)
Harvard College (MD)
École de Médecine (1833) - Professions
- professor (Anatomy and Physiology)
physician
writer
author
poet
essayist - Relations
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (son)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
James, Henry, Sr. (friend)
Jackson, Ameila Lee (wife) - Organisations
- Fireside Poets
- Prix et distinctions
- Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology (Harvard)
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910) - Courte biographie
- While dean, Holmes attempted to admit the first African-Americans and the first woman to the Harvard Medical School.
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Autocrat of the Breakfast Table par Oliver Wendell Holmes
In a year's worth of columns for the nascent Atlantic Monthly, an orator holds forth on shoes, ships, and sealing wax over a series of boarding-house breakfasts. His audience, among the clatter of silverware and tea cups, is alternately impressed and skeptical at his assertions.
I was enormously disappointed in this book. If the narrator is indeed an autocrat, I'm all for revolution and bringing up the guillotine. Turgid and leaden in its delivery, not particularly funny, nor particularly wise. In short, the autocrat is a windy bore. Not recommended.
This little book took me some time to read. At first, I thought I might write down some of the quotes from it, but soon I realised that each page had a memorable quote and I decided to leave the possibility that I will remember this book should any of the various quotes be needed again in the future. I daresay at this I shall fail but if I put it to memory that there are many important quotes in this work, I may well recover some of its hidden gems. I found Oliver Wendell Holmes to read like that other three-named American, Ralph Waldo Emerson, although less of a "Churchman", rather than a divinity address he had a divinity student at the boarding house table. This book was originally written as a series of articles for The Atlantic Monthly first written in 1857 with the first serial of this book appearing in its first edition. The work lends itself to being read in a stop-start fashion, as if it were meant to be serialised, and there is so much packed into so few sentences that it takes some time to absorb the sheer depth of wit, meaning, humour, learnedness, and intellect on display. The interspersed poetry had me wonder at times why poetry is so "on the nose" these days (Random House does not accept manuscripts of poetry, and recently, a quote on the movie The Big Short: "The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates poetry"). I think we miss something as a result. But not so in Holmes' time. Nevertheless, this took a long time to digest, even though it is not a difficult read.… (plus d'informations)
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- 124
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- 22
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- Popularité
- #13,762
- Évaluation
- 3.8
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- ISBN
- 278
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