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HIRAM CORSON (1828— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORSON (1828— )  , See also:American See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:November 1828, in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania . He held a position in the libraryof the Smithsonian Institution, See also:Washington D.C.( 1849–1856), was a lecturer on See also:English literature in Philadelphia (1859—1865), and was See also:professor of English at See also:Girard See also:College, Philadelphia (1865—1866), and in St See also:John's College, See also:Annapolis, See also:Maryland (1866—1870) . In 1870—1871 he was professor of See also:rhetoric and See also:oratory at Cornell University, where he was professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature (1872—1886), of English literature and rhetoric (1886—189o), and from 1890 to 1903 (when he became professor See also:emeritus) of English literature, a See also:chair formed for him . He edited See also:Chaucer's Legende of Goode See also:Women (1863) and Selections from Chaucer's See also:Canterbury Tales (1896), and wrote a See also:Hand-See also:Book of Anglo-Saxon and See also:Early English (1871), and, among other See also:text-books, An Elocutionary See also:Manual (1864), A Primer of English See also:Verse (1892), and Introductions to the study of See also:Browning (1886, 1889), of See also:Shakespeare (1889) and of See also:Milton (1899) . The See also:volume on Shakespeare and the Jottings on the Text of See also:Macbeth (1874) contain some excellent Shakespearian See also:criticism . He also published The University of the Future (1875), The Aims of See also:Literary Study (1895), and The See also:Voice and Spiritual See also:Education (1896) . He translated the Satires of See also:Juvenal (1868) and edited a See also:translation by his wife, See also:Caroline See also:Rollin (d . 1901), of See also:Pierre See also:Janet's See also:Mental See also:State of Hystericals (1901) .

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I think he died. In 1911.
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