Timeline
Lifetime:
1847 -
1926
Passed: ≈
97 years ago
Title
Author, Literary Historian, Poet
Country/Nationality
United States
Henry Beers
Henry Augustin Beers was an author, literary historian, poet, and professor at Yale University.
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. He is probably best known for his works on the historical development of literature.
Books by Henry Beers
A Brief History of English and American Literature
History
Non-Fiction
Literary Criticism
Restoration
Renaissance Literature
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping thousand 900 year history of English...