Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Sr "Cacoethes Scribendi" Poem animation

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Heres a virtual movie of the celebrated American Transcendentalist poet essayist and Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Sr reading is memorable poem "Cacoethes Scribendi". From the Latin for An insatiable urge to writeThe phrase is derived from a line in the Satires of Juvenal: Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, or "the incurable desire (or itch) for writing affects many" Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , MD, (1809-1894) was an American physician, poet, novelist and essayist. He was also the father of the famous American jurist and Justice of the United Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was known as t! he Boston Brahmin. Despite his eventual literary fame, Holmes would take a long hiatus from creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson would describe Holmes's later life creative outpouring in the following way: like old pear trees which have done nothing for ten years, and at last begin to grow great." Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2012 Cacoethes Scribendi If all the trees in all the woods were men; And each and every blade of grass a pen; If ...