The prose works of this author, including the essay "The Deacon's Masterpiece," are collected in his Breakfast-Table series. This author wrote "give her to the god of storms, / The lightning and the gale!" in a poem lamenting the scrapping of USS Constititution, "Old Ironsides." The narrator of another of his poem hears "cl
The prose works of this author, including the essay "The Deacon's Masterpiece," are collected in his Breakfast-Table series. This author wrote "give her to the god of storms, / The lightning and the gale!" in a poem lamenting the scrapping of USS Constititution, "Old Ironsides." The narrator of another of his poem hears "clearer notes . . . Than ever Triton blew" from the titular "ship of pearl." For 10 points, name this father of a Supreme Court Justice, the Fireside poet of "The Chambered Nautilus."
The prose works of this author, including the essay "The Deacon's Masterpiece," are collected in his Breakfast-Table series.
Oliver Wendell {Holmes}, Sr.