Name Henry Reed Role Jr. | Education Harvard College (1938) | |
 | ||
Died May 1, 2013, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada People also search for John Young Cole, Victor Laredo, Paul Marie Letarouilly Books The golden city, The New York Public Library, The United States Capitol, Bridges of Central Park, Palladio's Architecture and Its Inf | ||
The 2015 henry hope reed acceptance speech
Henry Hope Reed (11 July 1808 – 27 September 1854) was an American educator. He was considered the star of the faculty at University of Pennsylvania and was an early champion of poet William Wordsworth.
Contents
- The 2015 henry hope reed acceptance speech
- Toast to Arthur Ross and Henry Hope Reed New York May 2013
- Life and career
- References
Toast to Arthur Ross and Henry Hope Reed (New York, May 2013)
Life and career
Reed graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1825, practiced law in Philadelphia, and was assistant-professor of moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania in 1831-34 and professor of English literature and rhetoric there in 1835-54. He assisted William Wordsworth in the preparation of an American edition of his poems in 1837, edited in America Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (1851) and published Lectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson (1855).
His brother was lawyer and educator William Bradford Reed.
Reed drowned at sea when the SS Arctic sank returning to America from Europe.