Charles Townsend Copeland (April 27, 1860 – July 24, 1952) was a professor, poet, and writer.
He graduated from Harvard University and spent much of his time as a mentor at Harvard, where he served in several posts, including Boylston Professor of Rhetoric from 1925 to 1928.[1] He also worked as a part-time theater critic. Known as “Copey” by many of his peers and admirers, he became known for his Harvard poetry readings in the 1930s.[2][3] In her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Helen Keller paid high praise to Copeland as an instructor.[citation needed] He also taught at the Harvard Extension School.[4]
Books in order of publication:
| Copeland’s Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present Part One | 1930 |
| Copeland’s Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present Volume II | 1931 |
| Copeland’s Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present Volume III | 1931 |
| Copeland’s Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present Volume IV | 1931 |
| Copeland’s Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present Volume V | 1931 |
| Letters to His Youngest Sister | 1968 |
| Edwin Booth | 2006 |
| Selections from Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Browning; | 2015 |
| Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters | 2015 |
| Freshman English and Theme-Correcting in Harvard College | 2015 |
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