ABSTRACT

Beers (1847-1926) was an American author and poet, and Professor of English at Yale. As a scholar Beers was primarily interested in Romanticism, publishing the History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (1899; see No. 45) and the History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (1901). In From Chaucer to Tennyson (1898), he spoke of a new style in poetry at the end of the seventeenth century which was variously known as the Metaphysical school, the fantastic or conceited school, or ‘English Marinists or Gongorists after the poets Marino and Gongora, who brought this fashion to its extreme in Italy and in Spain’ (From Chaucer to Tennyson, 1898, pp. 105-7).