Prof John Beer, FBA

Career: RAF 1946-48; lectr Univ of Manchester 1958-64; Univ of Cambridge: res fell St John's Coll 1955-58, fell Peterhouse 1964-93 (emeritus fell 1993), univ lectr 1964-78, reader 1978-87, prof of English literature 1987-93 (emeritus prof 1993), Leverhulme emeritus fell 1995-96, Stanton lectureship in philosophy of religion 2006-07; pres Charles Lamb Soc 1989-2002; FBA 1994

Books and Publications: Coleridge the Visionary (1959), The Achievement of E M Forster (1962), Coleridge's Poems (ed, 1963 and 1993), Milton Lost and Regained (1964), Blake's Humanism (1968, electronic version 2006), Blake's Visionary Universe (1969), Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies (ed, 1974), Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence (1977), Wordsworth and the Human Heart (1978), Wordsworth in Time (1979), E M Forster - A Human Exploration (ed with G K Das, 1979), A Passage to India - Essays in Interpretation (ed, 1985), Coleridge's Writings (general ed, 1990-), Aids to Reflection - Collected Coleridge (ed, 1993), Romantic Influences: Contemporary - Victorian - Modern (1993), Against Finality (1993), Questioning Romanticism (ed, 1995), Selected Poems of A H Clough (ed, 1998), Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot and Ruskin (1998), Coleridge's Writings on Religion and Psychology (ed, 2002), Romantic Consciousness: Blake to Mary Shelley (2003), Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath (2003), William Blake: A Literary Life (2005), Romanticism, Revolution and Language: the fate of the word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot (2009), Coleridge's Play of Mind (2010)