Atlantic Unbound Archive

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Recent articles by Oliver Wendell Holmes

June 1859

The Stereoscope and the Stereograph

"Form is henceforth divorced from matter. Give us a few negatives of a thing, and that is all we want of it." In 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes famously proclaimed that our relationship to art and the world around us had been forever altered.

April 1858

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Every man his own Boswell.