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CORSON, HIRAM (1828 )

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 204 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORSON, HIRAM (1828 ) , American scholar, was born on the 6th of November 1828, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
 . He held a position in the libraryof the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.( 18491856), was a lecturer on
English
  literature in Philadelphia (18591865), and was professor of
English
  at Girard College, Philadelphia (18651866), and in St John's College,
Annapolis
 ,
Maryland
  (18661870). In 18701871 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Cornell University, where he was professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature (18721886), of English literature and rhetoric (1886189o), and from 1890 to 1903 (when he became professor emeritus) of English literature, a chair formed for him. He edited Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women (1863) and Selections from Chaucer's
Canterbury
  Tales (1896), and wrote a Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English (1871), and, among other text-books, An Elocutionary
Manual
  (1864), A Primer of English Verse (1892), and Introductions to the study of Browning (1886, 1889), of Shakespeare (1889) and of Milton (1899). The volume on Shakespeare and the Jottings on the Text of
Macbeth
  (1874) contain some excellent Shakespearian criticism. He also published The University of the Future (1875), The Aims of Literary Study (1895), and The Voice and Spiritual Education (1896). He translated the Satires of Juvenal (1868) and edited a
translation
  by his wife, Caroline Rollin (d. 1901), of Pierre
Janet
 's Mental State of Hystericals (1901).


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