Commentary On the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
1968
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Explications of lives, phrases, and allusions in each of Yeat's twenty-six plays provide extensive textual, background, thematic, and performance information
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A. Norman Jeffares
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Alexander Norman Jeffares, AM was an Irish literary scholar. Jeffares was educated at Dublin High School, Trinity College, Dublin and Oriel College, Oxford. He took up his first academic appointment at the University of Groningen in 1947 and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1948. At the very early age of 30 he was then appointed to the Jury Chair of English at the University of Adelaide where he stayed for 17 years. He then returned to the Chair of English at the University of Leeds before finally moving to the University of Stirling in 1974. He retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1985.
