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Hiram CorsonHiram Corson born on the November 6, 1828 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught literature courses at Girard College, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and at Cornell University. He held a position in the library of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. In 1870-1871 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Cornell University, where he was professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature, of English literature and rhetoric, and from 1890 to 1903 of English literature. He edited Chaucers Legende of Goode Women and Selections from Chaucers Canterbury Tales, and wrote a Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English, and, among other text-books, An Elocutionary Manual, A Primer of English Verse, and Introductions to the study of Browning, of Shakespeare and of Milton. The volume on Shakespeare and the Jottings on the Text of Macbeth contain some excellent Shakespearian criticism. He also published The University of the Future, The Aims of Literary Study, and The Voice and Spiritual Education. He translated the Satires of Juvenal and edited a translation by his wife, Caroline Rollin, of Pierre Janets Mental State of Hystericals. Hiram Corson Hiram Corson
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