The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) was an American polymath based in Boston, a member of the Fireside Poets. Renowned for his wit and verbal creativity, Holmes was an influential writer, physician, and an esteemed professor at Harvard Medical School. With a literary career that traversed various genres, Holmes' most enduring work is 'The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table' (1858), which deftly com...