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1. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell
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3. The poetical works of Oliver Wendell
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5. John Lothrop Motley. A memoir.
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6. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell
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8. JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.His
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9. Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell
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11. The last leaf; poem, by Oliver
 
12. The COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS Of
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17. The professor at the breakfast-table;
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18. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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19. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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20. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

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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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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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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I WAS JUST going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects.All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2 2=4.Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression A B=C.We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Thoughts and the Times From 1850
An interesting range of thoughtful opinions, imbedded in a look at American life in the 1850s, by the father of a future Supreme Court Associate Justice.Part of the charm of this book is in the fact that at that time horses had been the only means of human-assisted transportation for the last few thousand years (with the exception of the new-fangled railroad which was changing the world).Electronics were not even imagined.Automobiles were 50 years into the future.

5-0 out of 5 stars Delightful
Two oral practices flourished in antebellum America: the lecture (or sermon) and the conversation. Lectures, such as Emerson's "The American Scholar" and sermons, such as the abolitionist sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, are well-known examples of this era.But it was also known as the Golden Age of Conversation, and its greatest practitioner was generally agreed to be Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior.

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.

5-0 out of 5 stars Glad to see this back in print ...
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a demonstration of New England civility in the 1850s. I believe it went through more than 50 editions by the end of the nineteenth century, so it must have been very widely read at one time. The book is packed with amazing observations. Holmes takes the time to wonder why the sense of smell is the quickest path to memory. He rails against puns in a way that is better than punning. He points out human flaws and praises examples of good living. Trees come alive, through prosaic description and poetic flights. Would you like to go back to the 1850s and have a conversation with a Boston intellectual? Here's your chance. There are many old copies of this book sitting around, but it's nice that it's come back into print (again).... (it's also a quiet love story, by the way)

5-0 out of 5 stars Astounding that this book is out of print....
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a demonstration of New England civility in the 1850s. I believe it went through more than 50 editions by the end of the nineteenth century, so it must have been very widely read at one time. The book is packed with amazing observations. Holmes takes the time to wonder why the sense of smell is the quickest path to memory. He rails against puns in a way that is better than punning. He points out human flaws and praises examples of good living. Trees come alive, through prosaic description and poetic flights. Would you like to go back to the 1850s and have a conversation with a Boston intellectual? Here's your chance. There are many old copies of this book sitting around, but it would be nice if it came back into print.... (it's also a quiet love story, by the way)

5-0 out of 5 stars A delightful essay on life, love, assorted topics
The imaginary scene is a boarding house breakfast. Conversation is dominated by a lively gent who's seen it all.He holds forth on women, school, philosophy, rowing, interrupted from time to time with verses suchas the Deacon's Masterpiece.It's witty, poignant, and rightfully aclassic. ... Read more


20. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Holmes
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