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Corson, Hiram

educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Chaucerian and Early English scholar, professor at Cornell university since 1870, and the author of The Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; and Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women.

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