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{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2015}}{{infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | dateformat=mdy}}Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature.[1]LifeCorson 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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} His papers are held at Cornell University.[2] Works- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001017212 Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women] (editor). 1863.
- An Elocutionary Manual. Charles Desilver. 1864.
- Satires of Juvenal (translator). 1868.
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFQQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Hiram+Corson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=daYET4SwF7SJsAKrx9ySCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Hiram%20Corson%22&f=false|title=A Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English|publisher=Holt & Williams| year=1871}}
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004123406 Jottings on the Text of Hamlet]. 1874. (The reference to Jottings on the Text of Macbeth in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article appears to be a mistake for Jottings on the Text of Hamlet.)
- The University of the Future. 1875.
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mW5aAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Hiram+Corson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=daYET4SwF7SJsAKrx9ySCg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Hiram%20Corson%22&f=false| title= An introduction to the study of Robert Browning's poetry| publisher=D.C. Heath & Co|year= 1886 or 1889}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FC8RAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Hiram+Corson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=daYET4SwF7SJsAKrx9ySCg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Hiram%20Corson%22&f=false| title=An Introduction to the Study of William Shakespeare| publisher=D.C. Heath & Co| year=1889 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSoYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Hiram+Corson%22+primer&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iqgET5C8DKOssALQndmQCg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Hiram%20Corson%22%20primer&f=false| title=A Primer of English Verse| publisher=Ginn| year= 1893 }}
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100485680 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). Notes1. ^{{cite web | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/06/16/105029804.pdf | title=Prof. Hiram Corson Dead | work=The New York Times | date=June 16, 1911 | accessdate=January 4, 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web | url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMA00449.html | title=Guide to the Hiram Corson Papers, 1842-1956. | publisher=Cornell University | accessdate=January 4, 2012}}
References- {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Corson, Hiram}}
- {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Corson, Hiram|year=1900 }}
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.
External links- Brief biography about Hiram's life at Cornell
- {{Gutenberg author | id=Corson,+Hiram | name=Hiram Corson}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Hiram Corson}}
- {{Librivox author |id=1479}}
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