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Joseph Warren Beach

About the Author

Joseph Warren Beach (1880–1957) was an American poet, critic, educator, and literary scholar. After earning his doctorate degree from Harvard, Beach returned in 1907 to the University of Minnesota—where he had received his undergraduate degree—as an Assistant Professor, retiring as the Chair of the English Department in 1948. Included among his works are American Fiction 1920–1940 and Sonnets of the Head and Heart (1903).