1809-1894

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Classic tales in verse about naughty boys and girls and the fates that befall them when they misbehave.

A biography of the versatile 19thcentury physician, poet, scientist, professor, and lecturer who was a pioneer in many fields.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno.".

Presents a brief, illustrated biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., providing information on his youth in Boston, his service in the Civil War, his education and law career, his appointment to the Supreme Court, and his influence on American legal thought. Includes time line.

In 1865 Boston, an elite group of American Dante scholars, including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is called upon to solve a series of murders inspired by scenes in Dante's "Inferno.".