Hiram Corson

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

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. His papers are held at Cornell University.

Works

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

References

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External links

• Brief biography about Hiram's life at Cornell
• Works by Hiram Corson at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Hiram Corson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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