- Henry Charles Beeching
Henry Charles Beeching (
15 May 1859 - 1919) was an English clergyman, author and poet. He was educated at theCity of London School and atBalliol College, Oxford . He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in aLiverpool parish. He later became Dean ofNorwich . He gave theClark Lecture in 1900 on "The history of lyrical poetry in England". He wrote a book onFrancis Atterbury .To him is attributed the popular
epigram onBenjamin Jowett : :First come I; my name is Jowett.:There's no knowledge but I know it.:I am master of this college::What I don't know isn't knowledge.This is the first verse of "The Masque of B-ll--l" [ [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html The Masque of B-ll--l online] ] (1880), a scurrilous undergraduate production in 40 verses satirising Balliol figures. It was suppressed at the time; later research has given Beeching credit for 19 of those.
*"Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems" (1883) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
* "Love's Looking Glass" (1892) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
*"A Paradise of English Poetry", ananthology compiled by Beeching including works byA. W. -Joseph Addison -Sir Francis Bacon -Richard Barnfield -Francis Beaumont -Thomas Lovell Beddoes -William Blake -Nicholas Breton -Emily Jane Brontë -Fulk Greville -William Browne - Robert Burton -George Gordon, Lord Byron -Thomas Campbell -Thomas Campion -Thomas Carew -George Chapman -Thomas Chatterton -Geoffrey Chaucer -Samuel Taylor Coleridge -William Collins -Henry Constable -Richard Corbet -Abraham Cowley -William Cowper -Richard Crashaw -Samuel Daniel -Sir William D'Avenant -Sir John Davies -Walter Davison - Thomas Dekker -John Donne -Michael Drayton -William Drummond -John Dryden -Ebenezer Elliott -Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex -Sir Richard Fanshawe - John Fletcher -Oliver Goldsmith -Thomas Gray - Robert Greene -Frances Greville -William Habington -Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury -George Herbert - Robert Herrick -Thomas Heywood -Thomas Hood -Samuel Johnson -Ebenezer Jones -Benjamin Jonson -John Keats -Henry King -Charles Lamb -Mary Lamb -Walter Savage Landor -Richard Lovelace -John Lylye -James Mabbe -Christopher Marlowe -Andrew Marvell -Jasper Mayne -John Milton -James Graham, Marquis of Montrose -Thomas Moore -Sir Thomas More -Thomas Nash -Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford -George Peele -Mary, Countess of Pembroke -Ambrose Philips -Katherine Philips -Alexander Pope -Matthew Prior -Sir Walter Ralegh -Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset -Sir Walter Scott -Sir Charles Sedley -William Shakespeare -Percy Bysshe Shelley -James Shirley -Sir Philip Sidney -John Skelton -Robert Southwell -Edmund Spenser -Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - James Thomson -Henry Vaughan -Edmund Waller -John Webster -George Wither - Charles Wolfe -William Wordsworth -Sir Henry Wotton -Sir Thomas Wyatt -Edward Young External links
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