Patricia Beer

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Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic.^[1]

She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic. She began to write poetry after World War II, while living in Italy; she is most often classified as a 'New Romantic' poet comparable to John Heath-Stubbs. On her own account, however, there is a discontinuity in her work. Devon is a major presence.^[2]

She was married twice; first to the writer P.N. Furbank, and then to Damien Parsons, an architect, settling in Upottery, near Honiton, England. From the later 1960s she wrote full time. She edited several significant anthologies, broadcast, and contributed to literary reviews.

Works

Loss of the Magyar, and other poems (1959)
The Survivors (1963) poems
Just Like the Resurrection (1967) poems
Mrs. Beer's House (1968) autobiography
The Estuary (1971) poems
An Introduction to the Metaphysical Poets (1972)
Reader: I Married Him (1974) criticism
Driving West (1975)
Moon's Ottery (1978)
Selected Poems (1979)
The Lie of the Land (1983)
Collected Poems (1988) poems
Friends of Heraclitus (1993)
Autumn (1997) poems
Abbey Tomb (date unknown)

References

↑ Powell, Neil (1999-08-26). "Obituary: Patricia Beer". The Independent (London, UK: Independent News & Media plc.). Retrieved 2009-12-27.
↑ "Patricia Beer - 1924 - 1999". The Poetry Archive. Gloucestershire, UK. Retrieved 2009-12-27.

External links

Patricia Beer - 1924 - 1999 Accessed 2009-12-27
Obituary: Patricia Beer Accessed 2009-12-27

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Name	Beer, Patricia
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Short description	British writer
Date of birth	1919-11-04
Place of birth
Date of death	1999-08-15
Place of death

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