Yates, W. Edgar, 1938-2021
by Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA
- Date
- 28 Feb 2022
- Number of pages
- 14 (pages 165-178)
W.E. Yates, always known as ‘Gar’, was a distinguished scholar of German and particularly Austrian literature, and one of the foremost specialists on the work of the great Viennese comic dramatist Johann Nestroy.
Posted to Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 20