Question

W. B. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year:

• A. 1919
• B. 1921
• C. 1923
• D. 1925

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 1923

W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. The citation praised his always inspired poetry that expressed the spirit of a whole nation. Yeats used the occasion to highlight Irish nationalism and cultural independence, emphasizing the prize as symbolic recognition of the Irish Free State, formed shortly before in 1922.