Publisher's Synopsis
Though by profession a doctor (he coined the word anesthesia), Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the leading nineteenth-century American poets and a member of the famous Saturday Club with Emerson, Longfellow, and Lowell. The year 2009 marked the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. Here are his major poems, including "Old Ironsides" and "The Last Leaf" in a rare audiobook collection read affectingly by Peter Marinker.
