Henry Hope Reed

For the architecture critic, see Henry Hope Reed Jr.

Henry Hope Reed
Born	July 11, 1808
Died	September 27, 1854
Nationality	American
Occupation	Educator

Henry Hope Reed (11 July 1808 – 27 September 1854[1]) 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.[2]

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 1831–1834 and professor of English literature and rhetoric there in 1835–1854. 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).

In 1838, Reed was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.[3]

His brother was lawyer, politician and educator William Bradford Reed. Reed was married to Elizabeth White Bronson and had six children.

Reed died at sea when the SS Arctic sank returning to America from Europe. He was travelling with his sister-in-law, Anne Emily Bronson, who also died.[4]

References

1. Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. The Biographical Society
2. Baltzell, Edward Digby (1996) Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia. Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-1-56000-830-9
3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
4. Farley-Hills, David (2006). Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900. AMS Press, ISBN 978-0-404-62271-8

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reed, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 973.