For 10 points, name this Fireside poet, the author of "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus."
The speaker of one of this author's poems describes spending "ten days and nights, with sleepless eye" watching a fit of hysterics brought on by some exceedingly humorous verses. In another poem, he describes how a certain type of person swears "with an 'I dew vum,' or an 'I tell yeou' " and concludes with the line "Logic is logic. That's all I say." This author of "The Height of the Ridiculous" also related the history of an object which fell to pieces on the hundredth anniversary of both its creation and the Great Lisbon Earthquake. In addition to writing (*) "The Deacon's Masterpiece," which tells of a "wonderful one-hoss shay," this man penned a poem about a "child of the wandering sea" whose final stanza begins "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul." For 10 points, name this Fireside poet, the author of "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus."
The speaker of one of this author's poems describes spending "ten days and nights, with sleepless eye" watching a fit of hysterics brought on by some exceedingly humorous verses.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.