Hiram Corson

Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 – June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature.

Life
Corson 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. 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 (1886-1890), and from 1890 to 1903 (when he became professor emeritus) of English literature, a chair formed for him. His papers are held at Cornell University.

Works
He edited a translation by his wife, Caroline Rollin (d. 1901), of Pierre Janet's Mental State of Hystericals (1901).
 * Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women (editor). 1863.
 * An Elocutionary Manual. Charles Desilver. 1864.
 * Satires of Juvenal (translator). 1868.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.