Hiram Corson

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Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature.[1]

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. Johns College, 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.[2] His papers are held at Cornell University.[3]

Works

  • Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women (editor). 1863.
  • An Elocutionary Manual. Charles Desilver. 1864.
  • Satires of Juvenal (translator). 1868.
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  • Jottings on the Text of Macbeth. 1874.
  • The University of the Future. 1875.
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  • 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 (d. 1901), of Pierre Janet's Mental State of Hystericals (1901).

Further reading

  • George Norman Highley, ed. The Corson family: a history of the descendants of Benjamin Corson, son of Cornelius Corssen of Staten Island, New York, H.L. Everett, 1906.

Notes

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  2. Chisholm 1911.
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References

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