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| | HIRAM CORSON - LoveToKnow Article on HIRAM CORSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | 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 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. |
 | | He edited Chaucers Legende of Goode Women (1863) and Selections from Chaucers 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). |
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