Description
The American poet, doctor, teacher, hymn writer, lecturer and
novelist Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the illustrious East
Coast Brahmins – the Fireside Poets who included Longfellow,
Whittier and Bryant. He was immensely popular in his own time,
and his poems and hymns were recited and sung throughout the
land. His patriotic ballads, his meditations on love and life, and his
satirical and humane observations on the home and society have
given us a robust panoply of America in the late nineteenth century.