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Hiram Corson

American professor of literature and writer

Hiram Corson

American professor of literature and writer

Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature.

Life

Corson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He held a position in the library of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1849-1856), was a lecturer on English literature in Philadelphia (1859-1865), and was professor of English at Girard College, Philadelphia (1865-1866), and in St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (1866-1870). In 1870-1871 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Cornell University, where he was professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature (1872-1886), of English literature and rhetoric (1886-1890), and from 1890 to 1903 (when he became professor emeritus) of English literature, a chair formed for him. His papers are held at Cornell University.

Bookplate of Hiram Corson (1828–1911) affixed to the inside cover of William Hazlitt's ''Lectures on the English Comic Writers'' (1819), reflecting Corson's personal connection to the literary world.

Works

  • Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women (editor). 1863.
  • An Elocutionary Manual. Charles Desilver. 1864.
  • Satires of Juvenal (translator). 1868.
  • Jottings on the Text of Hamlet. 1874. (The reference to Jottings on the Text of Macbeth in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article appears to be a mistake for Jottings on the Text of Hamlet.)
  • The University of the Future. 1875.
  • The Aims of Literary Study. 1895.
  • The Voice and Spiritual Education. 1896.
  • Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (editor). 1896.
  • An Introduction to the Study of Milton. 1899.
  • The voice and spiritual education. Macmillan. 1904. He edited a translation by his wife, Caroline Rollin, of Pierre Janet's Mental State of Hystericals (1901).

Notes

References

References

  1. (June 16, 1911). "Prof. Hiram Corson Dead". The New York Times.
  2. "Guide to the Hiram Corson Papers, 1842-1956.". Cornell University.
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