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Timeline

Lifetime: 1847 - 1926 Passed: ≈ 98 years ago

Title

Author, Literary Historian, Poet

Country/Nationality

United States
Wikipedia

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 Cover image

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...