View Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems Pictures. Photo by library of congress/corbis/vcg via getty images. Was an american doctor, poet, professor and author.
Say not the poet dies!
Born 29th august 1809 in cambridge, in massachusetts usa he was however his growing interest in composing and reciting his own poetry was noticed, firstly by his father when holmes wrote his first poem at thirteen. Poem for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of harvard college (oliver wendell holmes poems). An edition of poems (1836). American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer and poet;