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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)
From: Selections from American Poetry
Date: 20030101
Author:Margeret Sprague Carhart
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[In 1830] most of our writers were sentimental; a few were profound;
and
the nation at large began to be deeply agitated over social reforms
and
political problems. The man who in such a period showed the
possibilities of humor, and whose humor was invariably tempered by
culture and flavored with kindness, did a service to our literature
that
can hardly be overestimated."
-WILLIAM J. LONG
Born at Cambridge, Mass., he was brought up under the sternest type of New England theology. He graduated from Harvard College in 1829 after ...
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