Henry Augustin Beers
{{short description|American poet}}
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Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) 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.[http://www.ebooks-library.com/author.cfm/AuthorID/1469 Henry A. Beers at ebooks-library.com] 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 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)
- [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160114 The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays] (1920)
References
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External links
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Category:19th-century American writers
Category:Yale University faculty
Category:Writers from Buffalo, New York
Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American literary historians
Category:19th-century American male writers
Category:20th-century American male writers