BOOK LIST
Individual Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Riverside Edition. 13 vols. Prose, Vols. I–X; Poetry, XI–XIII. 1891. Standard Library Edition, 1892; Autocrat Edition, 1904; both 15 vols. (uniform with Riverside Edition, with added life by J. T. Morse as Vols. XIV and XV). The best single volume of poems is the Cambridge Edition, 1895. His work appeared in book form originally as follows: Poems, 1836; Boylston Prize Dissertations, 1838; Homeopathy, and its Kindred Delusions, 1842; Urania, 1846; Poems, 1849; Astræa, 1850; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858; The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, 1860; Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science, 1861; Elsie Venner, 1861; Songs in Many Keys, 1862; Soundings from the Atlantic, 1864; Humorous Poems, 1865; The Guardian Angel, 1867; The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872; Songs of Many Seasons, 1875; John Lothrop Motley, 1879; The Iron Gate, 1880; Medical Essays, 1883; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, 1883; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1885; A Mortal Antipathy, 1885; Our Hundred Days in Europe, 1887; Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, 1888; Over the Teacups, 1891.
Bibliography
A volume compiled by George B. Ives. 1907. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 540–543.
Biography and Criticism
The standard life is by John T. Morse. 1896. 2 vols.
Collins, Churton. The Poetry and Poets of America.
Cooke, G. W. Dr. Holmes at Fourscore. New England Magazine, October, 1889.
Curtis, G. W. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Literary and Social Essays. 1895.
Dwight, Thomas. Reminiscences of Dr. Holmes as Professor of Anatomy. Scribner’s, January, 1895.
Fields, Annie. Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters, in Authors and Friends. 1896.
Gilder, Jeannette L. A Book and its Story, in The Genial “Autocrat.” Critic, May 9, 1896.
Hale, E. E. An Afternoon with Dr. Holmes in Human Documents. 1895.
Higginson, T. W. Cheerful Yesterdays. 1898.
Higginson, T. W. Contemporaries. 1899.
Higginson, T. W. Old Cambridge. 1900.
Howells, W. D. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Harper’s, December, 1896.
Howells, W. D. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Literary Friends and Acquaintances. 1900.
Kennedy, W. S. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poet, Litterateur, Scientist. 1883.
Lang, Andrew. Adventures among Books. 1905.
Lodge, H. C. Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Essays. 1897.
Lowell, J. R. A Fable for Critics. 1848.
Matthews, Brander. Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. II, Bk. II, in chap. xxiii.
Meynell, Alice. The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays. 1897.
Richardson, C. F. American Literature, Bk. II, chap. vi. 1889.
Stedman, E. C. Poets of America. 1885.
Vincent, L. H. American Literary Masters. 1906.
Woodberry, G. E. Nation, October 11, 1894.