Joseph Warren Beach
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Joseph Warren Beach was an American poet, novelist, critic, educator and literary scholar.
from Gloversville, New York
, by the school's president, his uncle, Cyrus Northrop
. For teachers there, "he wrote his first poetry and his brilliant undergraduate papers," wrote University of Minnesota historian James Gray.
Following Beach's graduation in 1900 he became an instructor in rhetoric. Then for many years he moved back and forth between Minnesota and Harvard, alternating between periods of teaching and periods of working for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
After taking his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University
, Beach returned to Minneapolis in 1907 to the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. Starting as Assistant Professor, he became Associate Professor in 1917 and Professor in 1924. Beach chaired the English Department from 1939 to 1948, after which time he retired.
(The Method of Henry James (1918)), George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
; and nineteenth-century literature in general - Beach had a special love for poetry. His The Making of the Auden Canon (1957) was a study of how W. H. Auden
revised his earlier-published poems as his view of the world changed. He wrote also The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (1936).
Beach also brought out three volumes of his own poetry, Sonnets of the Head and Heart (1903), Beginning With Plato (1944), and Involuntary Witness (1950). His letters and papers are in the Library of Congress.
Life
Beach had been drawn to the University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
from Gloversville, New York
Gloversville, New York
Gloversville is a city in Fulton County, New York, that was once the hub of America's glovemaking industry with over two hundred manufacturers in Gloversville and Johnstown. In 2000, Gloversville had a population of 15,413. Ten years later, the population had increased to 15,665- History :The...
, by the school's president, his uncle, Cyrus Northrop
Cyrus Northrop
Cyrus Northrop was an American university president.He was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1857 and at the law school there in 1859. Two years later he was appointed clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives and in 1862 clerk of the Senate...
. For teachers there, "he wrote his first poetry and his brilliant undergraduate papers," wrote University of Minnesota historian James Gray.
Following Beach's graduation in 1900 he became an instructor in rhetoric. Then for many years he moved back and forth between Minnesota and Harvard, alternating between periods of teaching and periods of working for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
After taking his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Beach returned to Minneapolis in 1907 to the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. Starting as Assistant Professor, he became Associate Professor in 1917 and Professor in 1924. Beach chaired the English Department from 1939 to 1948, after which time he retired.
Works
He is the author of American Fiction 1920—1940 and The Twentieth Century Novel: Studies in Technique. He was an expert on many literary figures: Henry JamesHenry James
Henry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James....
(The Method of Henry James (1918)), George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.- Life :Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two...
, Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
; and nineteenth-century literature in general - Beach had a special love for poetry. His The Making of the Auden Canon (1957) was a study of how W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
revised his earlier-published poems as his view of the world changed. He wrote also The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (1936).
Beach also brought out three volumes of his own poetry, Sonnets of the Head and Heart (1903), Beginning With Plato (1944), and Involuntary Witness (1950). His letters and papers are in the Library of Congress.