Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of
literature
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.
Life
Corson was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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. He held a position in the library of the
Smithsonian Institution
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,
Washington, D.C.
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(1849-1856), was a lecturer on
English literature in
Philadelphia
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(1859-1865), and was professor of English at
Girard College
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, Philadelphia (1865-1866), and in
St. Johns College, Annapolis,
Maryland
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(1866-1870). In 1870-1871 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
, 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
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.
Works
''Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women''(editor). 1863.
* ''An Elocutionary Manual''. Charles Desilver. 1864.
* ''
Satires of Juvenal
The ''Satires'' () are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D.
Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the ...
'' (translator). 1868.
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''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.
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''The Aims of Literary Study'' 1895.
* ''The Voice and Spiritual Education''. 1896.
* ''Selections from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
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'' (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).
Notes
References
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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.
External links
Brief biography about Hiram's life at Cornell*
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American literary critics
Writers from Philadelphia
Cornell University faculty
1828 births
1911 deaths
Smithsonian Institution people
19th-century American writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) faculty
19th-century American male writers
20th-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers