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Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
1847–1926
A Yale professor with a talent for making literary history readable, he wrote widely on English and American literature while also publishing poetry, essays, and criticism. His books helped generations of readers trace the growth of Romanticism and other major literary traditions.
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
The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays
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 Two Twilights
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
About the author
Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1847, Henry Augustin Beers became an American writer, literary historian, poet, and longtime teacher at Yale. He earned his B.A. at Yale in 1869, was admitted to the New York bar in 1870, and soon turned toward academic life, first as a tutor and then as a professor of English.
Beers spent decades at Yale, where he built a reputation as a clear, energetic guide to literature. He wrote on both English and American letters, and he is especially remembered for works such as A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century and A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century. Alongside scholarship, he also published poetry, essays, and biographical writing.
He died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1926. Today, he is best seen as one of those bridge figures who helped bring literary study to a broad reading public: scholarly, but approachable, and deeply interested in showing how writers and traditions connect across time.