Beer, John, review of V. A. Shahane, E. M. Forster: A Reassessment, in Modern Language Review, 59.2 (1964), pp. 288–89, doi:10.2307/3721787

Beer, John, review of Harry F. Robins, If This Be Heresy: A Study of Milton and Origen, in Modern Language Review, 60.3 (1965), pp. 434–36, doi:10.2307/3720699

Beer, John, review of Roy Daniells, Milton, Mannerism and Baroque; Christopher Ricks, Milton's Grand Style, in Modern Language Review, 60.4 (1965), pp. 594–98, doi:10.2307/3720168

Beer, John, review of Helen Gardner, A Reading of 'Paradise Lost', in Modern Language Review, 63.1 (1968), pp. 186–88, doi:10.2307/3722696

Beer, John, review of James D. Simmonds, Milton Studies I; John M. Steadman, Milton's Epic Characters: Image and Idol; John G. Demaray, Milton and the Masque Tradition: The Early Poems, 'Arcades', and 'Comus', in Modern Language Review, 65.4 (1970), pp. 874–78, doi:10.2307/3722576

Beer, John, review of Stanley Gardner, Blake, in Modern Language Review, 66.4 (1971), pp. 872–74, doi:10.2307/3723013

Beer, John, review of Kathleen Coburn, The Self-Conscious Imagination: A Study of the Coleridge Notebooks in Celebration of the Bi-Centenary of His Birth 21 October 1772, in Modern Language Review, 71.4 (1976), pp. 895–97, doi:10.2307/3725973

Beer, John, review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Colmer, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Volume X. On the Constitution of the Church and State, in Modern Language Review, 74.4 (1979), pp. 914–19, doi:10.2307/3728247

Beer, John, review of Brian Wilkie, Mary Lynn Johnson, Blake's 'Four Zoas': The Design of a Dream; Michael Phillips, Interpreting Blake, in Modern Language Review, 76.3 (1981), pp. 676–82, doi:10.2307/3727417

Beer, John, review of Leopold Damrosch, Jr., Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth; Geoffrey Keynes, William Blake, The Letters of William Blake, with Related Documents, in Modern Language Review, 79.2 (1984), pp. 425–30, doi:10.2307/3730044

Beer, John, review of William Wordsworth, Robert Osborn, The Borderers; Jonathan Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: 'The Borders of Vision', in Modern Language Review, 80.2 (1985), pp. 433–37, doi:10.2307/3728697

Beer, John, review of Lawrence Lipking, High Romantic Argument: Essays for M. H. Abrams, in Modern Language Review, 82.1 (1987), pp. 179–83, doi:10.2307/3729935

Beer, John, review of J. P. Ward, Wordsworth's Language of Men, in Modern Language Review, 83.2 (1988), pp. 416–18, doi:10.2307/3731702