Also the author of the series of essays titled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, FTP name this poet of "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides," father and namesake of a Supreme Court justice.
This author satirized the Calvinism of Jonathan Edwards in a poem about a "Deacon's Masterpiece" that lasted exactly 100 years and then fell apart all at once, "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay." One of the so-called Fireside Poets, a speaker in one of his poems exhorts, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul," while another begins with a call to "tear [the] tattered ensign down" from the title vessel, which was being retired. Also the author of the series of essays titled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, FTP name this poet of "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides," father and namesake of a Supreme Court justice.
This author satirized the Calvinism of Jonathan Edwards in a poem about a "Deacon's Masterpiece" that lasted exactly 100 years and then fell apart all at once, "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay.
Oliver Wendell {Holmes}, Sr.