John Bernard Beer

Background

Beer, John Bernard was born on March 31, 1926 in Watford, Herts, England. Son of John Bateman and Eva (Chilton) Beer.

Education

Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1957; Doctor of Letters, Cambridge (England) University, 1995.

Career

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, 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 East. M. Forster. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

Beer served in the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948.

He was a Junior Research Fellow at Street John"s College, Cambridge, from 1955 to 1958. Between 1958 and 1964 he was Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer at the University of Manchester.

From 1964 until his retirement in 1993, he was successively Lecturer, Reader (1978) and Professor (1987) of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He was president of the Charles Lamb Society from 1989 until 2002.

He was a Leverhulme emeritus fellow in 1995–1996 and was the 2006 Stanton lecturer in the philosophy of religion in the University of Cambridge.

Achievements

• John Bernard Beer has been listed as a noteworthy English language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • A Passage to India

    (The contributors to this book interpret, from different p...)

  • Coleridge the visionary (Collier books)

    ( The author attemtps to throw light on both the intellec...)

  • Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993

    (Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth ...)

  • (A "Passage to India": Essays in Interpretation) Author: John Beer published on (October, 1985)

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Membership

Fellow British Academy. Member Royal Over-Seas League.

Interests

• Avocations: walking, travel, music.

Connections

Married Gillian Patricia Kempster Thomas, July 7, 1962. Children: Daniel John, Rufus Bernard, Zachary William.

Father:

John Bateman Beer

Mother:

Eva (Chilton) Beer

Spouse:

Gillian Patricia Kempster Thomas

child:

Zachary William Beer

child:

Rufus Bernard Beer

child:

Daniel John Beer