Henry Hope Reed (11 July 1808 – 27 September 1854Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown (1904). ''The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.'' The Biographical Society) was an American educator. He was considered the star of the faculty at

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and was an early champion of poet

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ' ...

.Baltzell, Edward Digby (1996) ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia.'' Transaction Publishers,

Life and career

Reed graduated from the

in 1825, practiced law in Philadelphia, and was assistant-professor of moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania in 1831–1834 and professor of English literature and rhetoric there in 1835–1854. He assisted

in the preparation of an American edition of his poems in 1837, edited in America Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (1851) and published Lectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson (1855). In 1838, Reed was elected as a member of the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

. His brother was lawyer, politician and educator

William Bradford Reed William Bradford Reed (June 30, 1806 – February 18, 1876) was an American attorney, politician, diplomat, academic and journalist from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1834 to 1835. He wa ...

. Reed was married to Elizabeth White Bronson and had six children. Reed died at sea when the '' SS Arctic'' sank returning to America from Europe. He was travelling with his sister-in-law, Anne Emily Bronson, who also died.Farley-Hills, David (2006). ''Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900.'' AMS Press,

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