A primer of American literature . well, he started out as a lawyer, but soontook up medicine, which he studied in Europe,paying special attention to anatomy, which branchhe long taught at Harvard. The Collegian, a col-lege periodical, received many contributions fromhim, and in 1836, the year he took his medicaldegree, he brought out a collected edition of hispoems in Boston, including a rhymed essay onPoetry, read by him at Cambridge that year. Fromthat time he has always been the favorite Amer-ican poet at literary anniversaries. His lyricalfacility is greater than that of any other of ourwr
A primer of American literature . well, he started out as a lawyer, but soontook up medicine, which he studied in Europe,paying special attention to anatomy, which branchhe long taught at Harvard. The Collegian, a col-lege periodical, received many contributions fromhim, and in 1836, the year he took his medicaldegree, he brought out a collected edition of hispoems in Boston, including a rhymed essay onPoetry, read by him at Cambridge that year. Fromthat time he has always been the favorite Amer-ican poet at literary anniversaries. His lyricalfacility is greater than that of any other of ourwriters, and for neatness it is not too much tosay that he is the equal of Pope. That he is ahumorist has detracted from rather than added tohis reputation, for there is a popular idea that ahumorist cannot have deep feeling. In Holmesscase this is not true, for The Last Leaf, perhaps hisbest single poem, is a masterpiece of pathos. OldIronsides is a standard national lyric, and Holmeswrote a good share of the few commendable poems. fi^Zur&ty ^^,^^2;^^^ HOLMESS PROSE WORKS. 59 evoked by the civil war. Some of his best pieces —The Deacons Masterpiece, Parson TurelPs Legacy,and Homesick in Heaven — have first appeared inhis longer prose works, where they have fitted intotheir surroundings with exquisite has written no long poem. 17. Holmess Prose Works.— Dr. Holmes was aleading spirit in the establishment of The AtlanticMonthly, which became, with its first number, theBlackwood of Boston, and has probably printedmore articles by eminent authors within the pasttwenty years than any magazine in the prompt success was principally due to Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, a seriesof articles, half story, half essay, which were anovelty in American literature. Their satire issevere and yet genial, and their wit is as polishedand supple as a Damascus blade. The Professor atthe Breakfast Table, written in the same style, soonfollowed; and in
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