← Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Breakfast Table Seriesby Oliver Wendell HolmesSequel essays to Autocrat, continuing conversational musings on various intellectual topicsFind on Amazon↗About the authorOliver Wendell HolmesAmerican poet and physician known for his witty occasional verse and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. His Old Ironsides poem is credited with saving the USS Constitution.More by Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Autocrat of the Breakfast TableWitty essays on literature, life, and conversation from a Boston breakfast table→Poems→Old IronsidesPatriotic poem celebrating the USS Constitution and American naval heroism→