English Literature History

Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century.

He wrote intensely detailed histories of  English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times. We have collected those works below.

• From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400
• From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599
• The Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616
• The Age of Milton 1608-1674
• From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744
• The Death of Pope to the French Revolution 1744-1789
• The French Revolution to the Death of Scott 1789-1832
• From the Death of Scott to the Present Time 1832-1893
• Appendix