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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Series: The Great Poets
Narrator: Peter Marinker
Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 03/02/2009
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry
Synopsis
Though by profession a doctor (he coined the word anesthesia) Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was one of the leading 19th century American poets and a member of the famous Saturday Club with Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of his birth. Here are his major poems, including Old Ironsides and The Last Leaf in a rare audiobook collection read affectingly by Peter Marinker.