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1. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 08: Bunker Hill and Other Poems by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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2. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 11: Poems from the Teacups Series by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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3. The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Vols. I. to IV. by Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) Holmes | |
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4. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 10: Before the Curfew by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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5. John Lothrop Motley. A memoir. By Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) Holmes | |
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6. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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7. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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8. JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers. Edited and Annotated by Harry C. Shriver.Introduction by Harlan Fiske Stone. by Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894].Shriver, Harry C. - Editor. Holmes | |
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(1936)
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9. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889) by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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10. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 12: Verses from the Oldest Portfolio by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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11. The last leaf; poem, by Oliver Wendell Holmes; illustrated by George Wharton Edwards & F. Hopkinson Smith by Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) Holmes | |
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12. The COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS Of OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. by Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894].Scudder, Horace E. - Editor. Holmes | |
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13. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 07: Songs of Many Seasons by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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14. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 03: Medical Poems by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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15. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836) by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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16. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, theVolume 04: Songs in Many Keys by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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17. The professor at the breakfast-table; with the story of Iris by Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) Holmes | |
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18. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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19. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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Thoughts and the Times From 1850
Delightful Holmes was considered an important American writer until the 1920s when he was excised from the American canon by the modernists. They depicted him as willfully provincial, and elitist.What those critics failed to understand was that the Autocrat is also a comic pose, and that Holmes is making sport of everyone, including elitists. Holmes'democratic view of conversation as an open, free-wheeling discourse where anyone could join the Autocrat at his table, as long as they enlivened the conversation, ran counter to the views ofhis more elitist friends in Boston'sSaturday Club in Boston.Holmes loved to talk, and his love for talk made him a democrat, or perhaps a true republican. His Autocrat is a many sided character: stern and foolish, admonitory and celebratory, a polymorph who will don any temporaty mask necessary to keep the conversation alive. Holmes'playful metaphorical imagination is also a revelation. His gift for translating complex ideas into homey metaphors, aphorisms, and similes is nothing short of miraculous.In the words of another seriously comic American whom I'm sure Holmes would have delighted in, the Autocrat "floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee." The Autocrat of the Breakfast table begins "in media res," in the middle of a conversation, with the Autocrat attempting to set the rules for conversation at his table.They are generous rules, but even they are open to sabotage by his tablemates at the boarding house. He begins by banning "facts" from his table as impediments to conversation, (a condition that should prevail on today's too numerous current event talking head shows. But I, like the Autocrat, digress). Here's how the Autocrat starts:"I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the head of arithmetical and algebraical intellects.All economical and practical wisdom is an extension of the following arithmetical formula: 2 + 2 = 4.Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expressiona + b = c.We are mere operatives, empirics, and egoists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures." "They all stared.There is a divinity student lately come among us to whom I commonly address remarks like this. " In other words, as Gibian says in his marvelous OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND THE CULTURE OF CONVERSATION:[The Autocrat] only asks us to study his beliefs the way a pragmatist would study the doctrines of any religion: "I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to to try to see what makes me believe it." How refreshing in this age of factoids and statisticoids recited with rancor and ideological certitude, to hear the Autocrat and his tablemates at the boarding house attempting to fashion a democracy through and by their conversation.Nowadays all we have are the unironic Autocrats, control freaks like John McLaughlin, Ted Koppel, Rush Limbaugh, and that guy on FOX whose name I have, pleasantly, forgotten. Listening to the Autocrat you can almost hear American singing.It's not exactly Walt Whitman's America,but it's still America in the hopeful, experimental antebellum era, and thus a good antidote to the cold technocratic chatter and lukewarm public relations cant we are showered with in this hypermediated century.
Glad to see this back in print ...
Astounding that this book is out of print....
A delightful essay on life, love, assorted topics |
20. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes | |
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