John Beer

John Bernard Beer (born 1926) is a British literary critic. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, 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 E. M. Forster. 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. He is married to the literary critic Gillian Beer.

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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