Author: Henry Wilmarth Hazzen
Alternate names: H.W. Hazzen
Born: 1842
Died: 1899
Bio: <b><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fourteen_sonnets_and_poems/Introduction">Henry Wilmarth Hazzen</a></b> (1842–1899) was a professor of literature at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> and a frequent speaker on the Midwestern and New England lecture circuits.  Although he wrote numerous essays and columns, his only book, <i>Fourteen Sonnets and Poems</i>, a verse dialogue with the great writers and thinkers of the past, was published posthumously by his wife Isabel Dearborn.  Although he died a half-century before Shimer actually adopted <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/curriculum/index.cfm">its present-day Great Books curriculum</a>, he is sometimes considered the school's first Great Books instructor. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Henry_Hazzen#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)