The Chambered Nautilus | Critical Overview
Critical Overview
"The Chambered Nautilus" has been popular and critically acclaimed since its publication in Holmes's prose work The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. It is one of Holmes's most famous poems and one of the most popular poems about a sea creature in American literature. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, in general, was an immediate success. Rowland E. Prothero writes in the Quarterly Review (1895) that it is by this work that "the name of Holmes will live." Prothero goes on to state...
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