Oliver Wendell Holmes
An American author. One of the Cambridge Poets.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
The Chambered Nautilus
sea creature enlarges its shell as it grows
The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
shay fell apart, satirizing Calvinist permanence
Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
Elsie Venner has serpentine qualities because mom was bitten by snake. She loves Bernard Langdon but she dies.
Old Ironsides
saved USS Constitution from being scrapped