Born in 1809, died in 1894; professor in the Medical School
of Harvard in 1847-82; wrote for the _Atlantic Monthly_ "The
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" in 1857-58, "The Professor
at the Breakfast Table" in 1859, "The Poet at the Breakfast
Table" in 1872; published "Elsie Venner" in 1861, "The
Guardian Angel" in 1868, "A Mortal Antipathy" in 1885; a
collection of verse entitled "Songs in Many Keys" in 1861,
"Humorous Poems" in 1865, "Songs of Many Seasons," in 1874,
"Before the Curfew" in 1888; also wrote volumes of essays
and memoirs of Emerson and Motley.
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