Career
He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Books:
Jacobean Dramatic Perspectives, 1972
Dryden"s Heroic Drama, 1972
The Passions of Shakespeare"s Tragic Heroes, 1990
Shakespeare and the Experience of Love, 1991
West. H. Auden, Lectures on Shakespeare (editor), 2002
West. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare" "The Tempest" (editor), 2005.