Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory

The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston.[1]

Image Name Start date End date References
 John Quincy Adams 1806 1809 [2]
Joseph McKean 1809 1818 [2]
 Edward Tyrrel Channing 1819 1851 [2]
 Francis James Child 1851 1876 [2]
Adams Sherman Hill 1876 1904 [2]
Le Baron Russell Briggs 1904 1925 [2]
 Charles Townsend Copeland 1925 1928 [2]
Robert S. Hillyer 1937 1944 [2]
Theodore Spencer 1946 1949 [2]
 Archibald MacLeish 1949 1962 [2]
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald 1965 1981 [2]
 Seamus Heaney 1984 1995 [2][3]
 Jorie Graham 1999 [4][5]
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References
  1. Adams, John Quincy. "Letter from John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1819 May 24". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  2. Hendricks, Jay (July–August 1995). "How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric" (PDF). Harvard Magazine. 97 (6): 37–43.
  3. "Honoring, and feeling, Heaney's presence". Harvard Gazette. 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  4. "Jorie Graham - Harvard University Department of English". Harvard University Department of English. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  5. "Poet Jorie Graham to Read on April 26 at Library's Celebration of National Poetry Month". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
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