John Bernard Beer (born 1926) is a British literary critic. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. Best known as a scholar and critic of Romantic poets - especially William Blake,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth - he has also published on E. M. Forster. Romanticism largely began as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 &ndash 25 July 1834) was an English Poet, Critic and philosopher Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879–7 June 1970 was an English novelist Short story writer Essayist, and Librettist His inaugural lecture at Cambridge, Against Finality, was delivered on 4 February 1993, on the occasion of his retirement.
Beer has also taught at the University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. He is married to the literary critic Gillian Beer. Dame Gillian Beer, DBE (b 27 January 1935, Surrey England) is a British Literary critic.
Works
- Coleridge, the Visionary, Chatto & Windus, 1959; Humanities Ebooks, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84760-044-8
- The Achievement of E. M. Forster, Chatto & Windus, 1962; Humanities Ebooks, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84760-003-5
- Blake's humanism, Manchester University Press/Barnes & Noble, 1968; Humanities Ebooks, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84760-000-4
- Blake's Visionary Universe, Manchester University Press/Barnes & Noble, 1969. ISBN 0-719-00390-3
- Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Macmillan, 1977. ISBN 0-333-21312-2
- Wordsworth and the human heart, 1978. ISBN 978-0231046466
- Questioning Romanticism, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-801-85052-5
- Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 1-403-90518-5
- William Blake: a Literary Life, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 978-1-403-93954-8
External links
- Works by or about John Beer in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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