Charles Townsend Copeland

{{Short description|American professor, poet, and writer}}

{{other people|Charles Copeland}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}}

{{infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|dateformat=mdy|list=hlist|suppressfields=restingplace}}

Charles Townsend Copeland (April 27, 1860 in Calais, Maine[https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926/page/507/mode/2up COPELAND, Charles Townsend], in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926– 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.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Townsend-Copeland|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica|title=Charles Townsend Copeland}} 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 1920s and 30s.{{cite magazine |title=Birthday |magazine=Time |date=May 5, 1930 }}{{cite magazine |title=Copey Moves Out |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744351,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930084611/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744351,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |magazine=Time |date=September 12, 1932 |access-date=2008-06-26 }}{{Cite magazine |date=1927-01-17 |title=Education: Copey |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,729843,00.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |issn=0040-781X}} In her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Helen Keller paid high praise to Copeland as an instructor.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}} He also taught at the Harvard Extension School.{{Citation | title = The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910–2009| year = 2010 | author = Shinagel, Michael | publisher = Harvard University Press | isbn = 978-0674051355|page=52}}