. A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . OLIVER WENDELL POET, ESSAYIST AND HUMORIST. HIS distinguished author, known and admired throughout the Eng-lish speaking workl for the rich vein of philosophy, good fellowshipand pungent humor that runs through his poetry and prose, was bornin Cambridge, Massachussetts, August 29th, 1809, and died in Bos-ton, October 27th 1894, at the ripe old age of eighty-five—the lastleaf on the tree of that famous group, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell,Emerson, Bryant, Poe, Willis, Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana,
. A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . OLIVER WENDELL POET, ESSAYIST AND HUMORIST. HIS distinguished author, known and admired throughout the Eng-lish speaking workl for the rich vein of philosophy, good fellowshipand pungent humor that runs through his poetry and prose, was bornin Cambridge, Massachussetts, August 29th, 1809, and died in Bos-ton, October 27th 1894, at the ripe old age of eighty-five—the lastleaf on the tree of that famous group, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell,Emerson, Bryant, Poe, Willis, Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana, Thoreau, Mar-garet Fuller and others who laid the foundation of our national literature, and withall of whom he was on intimate terms as a co-laborer at one time or another. Holmes graduated at Harvard College in 1829. His genial disposition made hima favorite with his fellows, to whom some of his best early poems are of his classmates said of him :—He made you feel like you were the best fel-low in the world and he was the next best. Benjamin Pierce, the astronomer, andRev. Samuel F. Smit
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