Henry A. Beers (1847–1926)

This book is what literary criticism should be--what it was before the poison of so-called "literary theory" was slipped into the wine of scholarship. Beers gives us a balance of history and criticism that probably no one is capable of today. He writes the kind of book that C S Lewis commends somewhere as one that sends us eagerly off to read and re-read the subjects of his study. Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets!