Beer, Patricia (1919–1999)

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Beer, Patricia (1919–1999)

British poet and literary critic. Born Nov 4, 1919, in Exmouth, Devon, England; died 1999.

Early poetry often explored the landscape and history of Devon; later work, which was more experimental, includes The Loss of the Magyar (1959), The Survivors (1963), Driving West (1975), Selected Poems (1979) and The Lie of the Land (1983); also wrote critical works, An Introduction to the Metaphysical Poets (1972) and Reader, I Married Him (1974), and the essay collection As I Was Saying Yesterday (2002).

See also autobiographical works, Just Like the Resurrection (1967) and Mrs Beer's House (1968).

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