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who noted that Yeats "had won much acknowledgement for his remarkable lyrical writing", but the committee was still hesitant to award him the prize, with one member saying that Yeats "rather often lacks the clarity" that he thought a worthy recipient of the Nobel prize should have. The following year
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William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Most of his work has Irish subjects. Yeats was also a successful author of numerous plays and wrote prose works. Recurrent themes in his writing are the contrast of art and life, masks, cyclical theories of life (the
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William Butler Yeats was first nominated for the prize in 1902, when he was at the age of 37, but his candidacy was then dismissed by the Nobel committee who found his work "often obscure" and too limited in scope. Yeats was nominated again in 1914, 1915 and 1918 by members of the Nobel committee,
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symbol of the winding stairs), and the ideal of beauty and ceremony contrasting with the modern life. Yeats is noted for being one of the few Nobel laureates who wrote some of his greatest work after he was awarded the prize, such as
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said that "Mr. Yeats is to be congratulated, almost without reserve, on lifting this substantial stake. He is a poet of real greatness; prose, too, he can write like an angel", however arguing that
166:(1865â1939) "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". He was the first Irish Nobel laureate in literature.
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William Butler Yeats was nominated for the prize seven times before he was awarded in 1923. In 1923, he was nominated and recommended by all the members of the
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The Nobel prize to
William Butler Yeats was well received. One writer in
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died in 1923 without having been nominated for the prize.
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1429:"Classics: Mr Yeats's Nobel Prize"
1345:The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923
934:novel, short story, poetry, drama
597:Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
566:novel, short story, drama, essays
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190:The Winding Stair and Other Poems
1431:. The Guardian. 4 November 1929.
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1417:(in Swedish). kulturdelen.com.
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63:November 1923 (announcement)
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720:Antonio de Viti de Marco
302:Demetru Demetrescu-BuzÄu
1415:"Yeats och Nobelpriset"
958:Robert Eugen Zachrisson
658:history, essays, novel
2458:Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
2311:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1372:"William Butler Yeats"
1358:"William Butler Yeats"
1238:poetry, drama, essays
990:poetry, drama, essays
856:poetry, drama, essays
764:essays, autobiography
2403:Isaac Bashevis Singer
2278:Miguel Ăngel Asturias
1951:Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ
1682:Verner von Heidenstam
1537:BjĂžrnstjerne BjĂžrnson
2969:1923 literary awards
1929:Roger Martin du Gard
1360:. Poetry Foundation.
1221:William Butler Yeats
708:Edward Potts Cheyney
424:poetry, translation
253:, Hermann TĂŒrck and
195:Last Poems and Plays
164:William Butler Yeats
34:William Butler Yeats
2832:Svetlana Alexievich
2174:Salvatore Quasimodo
1860:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1794:George Bernard Shaw
1651:Rabindranath Tagore
1629:Maurice Maeterlinck
1299:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
883:Ăngel GuimerĂĄ Jorge
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342:Florence Montgomery
334:Katherine Mansfield
2777:Mario Vargas Llosa
2755:J. M. G. Le Clézio
2612:WisĆawa Szymborska
2392:Vicente Aleixandre
2263:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
2141:Juan Ramón Jiménez
2009:Johannes V. Jensen
1697:Henrik Pontoppidan
1563:Henryk Sienkiewicz
1277:Kazimierz Morawski
1167:essays, biography
1005:William Ralph Inge
614:Henrik Pontoppidan
462:drama, screenplay
406:Konstantin Balmont
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370:Hovhannes Tumanyan
294:John Cadvan Davies
247:Konstantin Balmont
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2788:Tomas Tranströmer
2289:Yasunari Kawabata
2252:Mikhail Sholokhov
2108:Winston Churchill
1783:WĆadysĆaw Reymont
1761:Jacinto Benavente
1640:Gerhart Hauptmann
1402:. nobelprize.org.
1388:. nobelprize.org.
1374:. nobelprize.org.
1304:Jacinto Benavente
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1191:Ludwig von Pastor
1023:theology, essays
838:Bertel Gripenberg
726:Gaetano Salvemini
640:Guglielmo Ferrero
330:Virginie Loveling
310:Ulderiko Donadini
255:Guglielmo Ferrero
231:Ludwig von Pastor
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