Occupation Poet and critic Name Patricia Beer | Role Poet Education University of Exeter | |
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Born November 4, 1919 Exmouth, Devon Alma mater University of Exeter; University of Oxford Spouse(s) P.N. Furbank; then Damien Parsons Died August 15, 1999, Upottery, United Kingdom Books Moon's ottery, As I was saying yesterday, Friend of Heraclitus, An introduction to the met, Autumn | ||
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Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic.
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She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic. She began to write poetry after World War II, while living in Italy; she is most often classified as a 'New Romantic' poet comparable to John Heath-Stubbs. On her own account, however, there is a discontinuity in her work. Devon is a major presence.
She was married twice; first to the writer P.N. Furbank, and then to Damien Parsons, an architect, settling in Upottery, near Honiton, England. From the later 1960s she wrote full-time. She edited several significant anthologies, broadcast, and contributed to literary reviews.