Hiram Corson
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox academic Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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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.Template:Sfn His papers are held at Cornell University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
WorksEdit
- 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 Hamlet. 1874. (The reference to Jottings on the Text of Macbeth in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica articleTemplate:Sfn 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 (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).
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Further readingEdit
- 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.