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Bread and the Newspaper
In 1861, an Atlantic editor captured the anxious mood on the home front.
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My Hunt After the Captain
An account of the author’s frantic search for his wounded son, who lived to become a Supreme Court justice
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My Hunt After the Captain
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War-torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice
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Bread and the Newspaper
In the early months of the Civil War, Holmes captured the anxious mood on the home front
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In Memory of John Greenleaf Whittier
A eulogy in verse
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But One Talent
A poem
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Too Young for Love
A poem
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To James Russell Lowell
A poetic tribute delivered on Lowell’s seventieth birthday
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To the Poets Who Only Listen
A poem
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The Flaneur
A poem
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Crime and Automatism
“Savage instincts, barbarous usages, ancient beliefs, will all find themselves confronted with a new order of facts.”
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The Poet to His Readers
A poem
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The Flower of Liberty
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The Stereoscope and the Stereograph
"Form is henceforth divorced from matter. In fact, matter as a visible object is of no great use any longer, except as the mould on which form is shaped. Give us a few negatives of a thing worth seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it"
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Every man his own Boswell.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”
