Robert Beum

Robert Beum

Robert Lawrence Beum (20 August 1929 – 13 April 2024) was an American scholar and poet.

Career overview

Beum was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the son of Robert F. Beum and his wife Florence (née Draper). He received his education at the Ohio State University (B.A., 1952; M.A., 1958) and did postgraduate work at the University of Nebraska (1958–1962). While a student at the Ohio State University, he became an assistant editor of the Golden Goose Press, where he was acquainted with Richard Wirz Emerson and Frederick Eckman. During his career, he was a member of the English faculty at a number of colleges in the midwest and Canada. Beum published several books of poetry (sometimes under the pseudonym Robert Lawrence) as well as literary criticism.

Robert Beum died in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 94.

Works

• The Ninth Hour (1949; poetry)
• Abstract Spring (1950)
• Twenty Poems (1955)
• Orpheus and Other Poems (1959)
• A Prosody Handbook (1965; with Karl Shapiro)
• Edmund Spenser: Epithalamion (1968; criticism)
• The Poetic Art of William Butler Yeats (1969; criticism)
• Ten for the Light (1971; poetry)
• Celebrations (1987; poetry)
• Nineteenth Century French Poets (2000; criticism)

Publications

Collaborations

• "So Much Gravity and Ease." In: Language and Style in Milton: A Symposium in Honor of the Tercentenary of Paradise Lost. New York: Frederick Ungar (1967)

External links

• Works by Robert Beum at Hathi Trust
• Works by Robert Beum at Unz.com
• Works by Robert Beum at JSTOR
• Works by Robert Beum at Project MUSE