Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)

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Date: 19970101
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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Popularity. According to one of his students, when Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes entered his classroom at Harvard College to lecture on anatomy, he was greeted “ by a mighty shout and stamp of applause. Then silence, and there begins a charming hour of description, analysis, simile, anecdote [and] harmless pun, which clothes the dry bones with poetic imagery … ” Holmes ’ s fame, however, went far beyond his medical lectures, for he also gained renown as a poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. ...

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