HIRAM

CORSON (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.( 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, 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—189o), 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) .