ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -14 November 1923 William Butler Yeats Wins Nobel Peace Prize On 14 November 1923 Irish poet and senator, William Butler Yeats created history when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irish citizen to achieve such an accolade.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. Whereas he received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works, his significance today rests on his lyric achievement.

Detailed explanation-3: -In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

Detailed explanation-4: -William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland-died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Detailed explanation-5: -It has awarded the first Nobel Prize in Literature to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme of the French Academy. Sully Prudhomme was born March 16, 1839, and in 1865 emerged as an accomplished poet in his Stances et Poèmes [Stanzas and Poems].