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Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
1847–1926
A longtime Yale professor, he wrote lively histories and essays that helped shape how readers approached English and American literature. His work blends scholarship with the ease of someone who clearly loved books and wanted others to love them too.
10 Audiobooks
Brief History of English and American Literature
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Initial Studies in American Letters
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Nathaniel Parker Willis
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Milton's Tercentenary An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday.
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The Two Twilights
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
About the author
Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1847, Henry Augustin Beers studied at Yale, earned his degree in 1869, and was admitted to the New York bar soon after. Law did not hold him for long, though, and he returned to Yale in the early 1870s to teach English, beginning a long academic career there.
Beers became known as a literary historian, critic, poet, and essayist. He spent decades on the Yale faculty and later retired as professor emeritus. His books include surveys of English and American literature as well as studies of Romanticism and American letters, written for readers who wanted both guidance and enjoyment.
Today he is remembered as one of the scholar-writers who helped bring literary history to a broad audience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His career joined classroom teaching with accessible criticism, making him a useful guide to the literary culture of his time.