Henry Augustin Beers (July 2, 1847 – September 7, 1926) was an American writer and academic.
Henry Augustin Beers | |
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 Henry Augustin Beers circa 1903 | |
| Born | July 2, 1847 |
| Died | September 7, 1926 |
Henry Augustin Beers was born on July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth Victoria (Clerc) and George Webster Beers.[1][2] He received a BA from Yale University in 1869 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1870.[3]
Beers practiced law and worked as tutor before joining Yale's English department in 1875. His writing was both creative and scholarly. Among other works, he wrote poetry and literary history.[1]
Beers died on September 7, 1926, in New Haven, Connecticut.[3]
Works
edit- 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 Eighteenth 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
edit- 1 2 Berdan, John M. (1929). "Beers, Henry Augustin". In Johnson, Allen (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 139–140.
- ↑ Kunitz, Stanley J.; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1938). "Beers, Henry Augustin". American Authors 1600–1900. New York: H. W. Wilson Company. p. 67.
- 1 2 "Professor Henry A. Beers Succumbs at New Haven". The Buffalo News. September 8, 1926. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
edit- Works by Henry Augustin Beers at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Henry A. Beers at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Henry Augustin Beers at the Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Augustin Beers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Henry Augustin Beers at Find a Grave