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]

References

  1. ↑ Adams, John Quincy. "Letter from John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1819 May 24". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 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. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
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