Departed Days

By Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Book Id: WPLBN0002949384
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File Size: 5.80 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Departed Days
Author:	Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Instruction, Nature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Departed Days
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Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Wendell Holmes, B. O. (n.d.). Departed Days. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Departerd Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2011. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is recognized as an important medical reformer. 1830 proved to be an important year for Holmes as a poet; while disappointed by his law studies, he began writing poetry for his own amusement.[22] Before the end of the year, he had produced over fifty poems, contributing twenty-five of them (all unsigned) to The Collegian, a short-lived publication started by friends from Harvard. Four of these poems would ultimately become among his best-known: The Dorchester Giant, Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian, Evening / By a Tailor and The Height of the Ridiculous. Nine more of his poems were published anonymously in the 1830 pamphlet Illustrations of the Athenaeum Gallery of Paintings. (summary from Wikipedia)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Instruction, Nature, Philosophy, Poetry