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Henry Augustin Beers Henry A. Beers was born, July 2, 1847 at Buffalo, New York. He attended Yale Univrsity, where he obtained his B.A. degree in 1869, studied law in New York and was admitted to the New York state bar in 1870. He was a tutor of English literature (1871-1874) and then became a professor of English at Yale University, a position he held from 1875 until 1916 when he became professor emeritus. Beers died September 7, 1926 in New Haven, Connecticut. Beers taught English literature for more than forty years, a far more sustained effort than his single year in the practice of law, which he undertook before he began his teaching career. [Source: "Beers, Henry A(ugustin) 1847-1926," in Scot Peacok (ed.), 209 Contemporary Authors 52-54 (Detroit: Gale, 2003Gale Virtual Reference Library] Poetry Henry A. Beers, Odds and Ends: Verses, Humorous, Occasional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878) ____________, The Thankless Muse (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885) [on-line text] ____________, The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus (New York: Henry Holt and Co., New and Further Enlarged ed., 1910)(1895) [on-line text] ____________, Two Twilights (Boston: R.G. Bader, 1917) ____________, Poems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921) [on-line text] Writings Henry A. Beers, A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876 (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1877)(New York: H. Holt, 1878) [on-line text] ____________, The Thankless Muse (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1878) (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885) ____________, Readings from Ruskin: Italy (Boston: Chautauqua, 1885) (Boston: Educational Pub. Co., 1889) ____________, Prose Writings of Nathaniel Parker Willis (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885)(New York: AMS Press, 1970)(New York: Scribner's, 1980) ____________, Nathaniel Parker Willis (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885) [on-line text] (1892) (1893) (1899) ____________, An Outline Sketch of English Literature (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1886) [on-line text] ____________, An Outline Sketch of American Literature (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1887) [on-line text] ( New York: Hunt & Eaton 1887)(New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1893) ____________, From Chaucer to Tennyson, English literature in Eight Chapters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1890) [on-line text] ____________, Initial Studies in American Letters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1891) [on-line text] (Meadville, Pennsylvania: Flood and Vincent, 1895) (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1899) ____________, Selections from the Prose Writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1893) (New York: Holt, 1908) ____________, From Chaucer to Tennyson, with Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors (Meadville, Pennsylvania: Flood and Vincent, 1894) [on-line text] (New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1898) (Meadville, Pennsylvania: Flood and Vincent, 1898) [on-line text] (New York: Macmillan, 1899) (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906) ([Folcroft, Pennsylvania: Folcroft Press], 1971) ____________, A Suburban Pastoral, and Other Tales (New York: Holt, 1894) [on-line text] ____________, Studies in American Letters (Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1895) ____________, Initial Studies in American Letters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1895) ([Folcroft, Pennsylvania]: Folcroft Library Editions, 1971) ____________, The Ways of Yale in the Counselship of Plancus (New York: Henry Holt, 1895) (New York: Holt, 1903) (New York: Henry Holt, 1910) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923) ____________, Brief History of English and American Literature (New York, Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains; Curts & Jennings, 1897) ____________, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth century (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1898) (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1899) (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1899) (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1901) [on-line text] (New York: Gordian Press 1901) (London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1902) (New York: H. Holt, 1906) (New York: H. Holt, 1910) (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1916) [on-line text] (New York: H. Holt, 1918) (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926) (New York: H. Holt, 1929) ( New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932) (New York: Gordian Press, 1966) (New York: Dover Publications, 1968) ____________, Points at Issue and Some Other Points (New York: Macmillan Co., 1903) (New York: Macmillan Company, 1904) [on-line text] (New York: Macmillan Co., 1910) (Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press 1967) ____________, A Short History of American Literature (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) [on-line text] ____________, The Two Twilights (Boston: R.G. Badger, 1917) ____________, Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman (New Haven: Pub. for the Yale review by the Yale University Press, 1919) [on-line text] (Folcroft, Pennsylvania: Folcroft Library Editions, 1971) ____________, The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920) [on-line text] (New York: AMS Press, 1973) ____________, Bumblebee (New Preston, Connecticut: Bernhardt Wall, etcher, publisher, 1925) |
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