As an author, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94) is best known for his poem “Old Ironsides” (1830), which aroused public sentiment against the destruction of the USS Constitution, an American fighting ship from the War of 1812. He is also known for his “Breakfast-Table” series of essays that he began contributing to The Atlantic Monthly in 1857.
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