Henry Augustin Beers
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Born | Buffalo, New York, USA |
July 2, 1847
Died | September 7, 1926 New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) was an author, literary historian, poet, and professor at Yale University.
Career overview
Beers practiced law and worked as tutor before joining the Yale Department of English in 1875, where he produced numerous works, including scholarly studies of literature, volumes of poetry, and biographies.[1] He is probably best known for his works on the historical development of literature.
Works
- A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876 (1877)
- Odds and Ends: Verses Humorous, Occasional and Miscellaneous (1878)
- Split Zephyr (1883)
- Readings From Ruskin: Italy (1885)
- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1885)
- The Thankless Muse (1885)
- An Outline Sketch of English Literature (1886)
- From Chaucer to Tennyson (1890)
- Initial Studies in American Letters (1891)
- A Suburban Pastoral, and Other Tales (1894)
- The Ways of Yale in the Counselship of Plancus (1895)
- A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (1898)
- Points at Issue and Some Other Points (1903)
- A Short History of American Literature (1906)
- Milton's Tercentenary (1910)
- The Two Twilights (1917)
- Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman (1919)
- The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays (1920)
References
External links
- Works by Henry Augustin Beers at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Henry Augustin Beers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Henry Augustin Beers at Find a Grave
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