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An essential part of any educational curriculum in Holmes 's time was declamation, and no public ceremony was complete without orations of a length that staggers the modern imagination. Holmes 's greatest triumph as lecturer was ...
An essential part of any educational curriculum in Holmes 's time was declamation, and no public ceremony was complete without orations of a length that staggers the modern imagination. Holmes 's greatest triumph as lecturer was ...
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After his retirement from Harvard in 1882, Holmes continued to write for a faithful audience that had come to accept uncritically anything he would give them. The most interesting work of these final years was the biography of Emerson ...
After his retirement from Harvard in 1882, Holmes continued to write for a faithful audience that had come to accept uncritically anything he would give them. The most interesting work of these final years was the biography of Emerson ...
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SELECTED AND COLLECTED EDITIONS The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Riverside edition. 13 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891. The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, edited by H. E. Scudder. Cambridge Edition.
SELECTED AND COLLECTED EDITIONS The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Riverside edition. 13 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891. The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, edited by H. E. Scudder. Cambridge Edition.
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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