Comprising all the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His ideas of true liberty; Comus, Lycids, and Samson Agonistes. Clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Hiram Corson (1828 – 1911) was an American professor of literature. He taught at Girard College, St. Johns College, Annapolis, and Cornell University. He also worked in the library of the Smithsonian Institution. Corson's published work A Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English, An Elocutionary Manual, A Primer of English Verse, and a series of three "Introduction to the Study of" books on Shakespeare, Browning and Milton (offerred here).; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.;