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Definition of Oliver Wendell Holmes
1. Noun. United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Literary usage of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Wild Roses of Cape Ann : Oliver Wendell Holmes, August 29,1879. — LATHROP (Geo.
Parsons), Youth to the Poet (To Oliver Wendell Holmes) : in Scribner's ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Oliver Wendell Holmes and his Works ; Being a brief Biographical and ...
MEYNELL (Alice), The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays : Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"Oliver Wendell Holmes; the Autocrat and his Fellow-Boarders. With Selected Poems.
... Oliver Wendell Holmes. Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters. ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1809.
During the revolution his grandfather had served as a surgeon with the ..."
5. American Literature by Julian Willis Abernethy (1902)
"Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894 The last survivor of the Cambridge trio, and of
the grand New England group, was Oliver Wendell Holmes. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Oliver Wendell Holmes. DR WENDELL HOLMES for a generation and a half has had a
wide European reputation. But he has a special claim on the regard of ' Maga' ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"JAMES T. FIELDS Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
the year 1809, under the shadow — or the sunshine, shall we say? ..."
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