Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

English Nobel Lecture, June 29, 1927 (Translation) The New Germany It is a great honor for me to address you today. I would like to begin by expressing my heartfelt thanks for the great distinction which the Nobel Committee has conferred upon me. I would also add my warm gratitude for the cordial welcome you…

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Nobel Prize lecture

German Vortrag gehalten am 29. Juni 1927 auf Einladung des Storthing-Nobelkomitees in der Aula der Universität in Oslo (Translation) Der Weg des neuen Deutschlands Euere Majestät, Herr Präsident, Eure Magnifizenz, meine Damen und Herren! Lassen Sie mich, wenn ich heute die Ehre habe, vor Ihnen zu sprechen, beginnen mit dem Ausdruck des tiefgefühlten Dankes für…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Italian Lettura Nobel, Dicembre 11, 1959 Il poeta e il politico “Lunga è la notte che non trova mai giorno”: sono parole di Shakespeare nel Macbeth e ci aiutano a determinare una condizione del poeta, al quale in un primo tempo il lettore appare da un’immagine della sua solitudine con volto e gesti del compagno…

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Nobel Prize lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Poet and the Politician “The night is long that never finds the day”. These are Shakespeare’s words in Macbeth, and they help us to define the poet’s condition. At first, the reader appears to the poet in his solitude as an image with the face and the gestures…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930 The American Fear of Literature Were I to express my feeling of honor and pleasure in having been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, I should be fulsome and perhaps tedious, and I present my gratitude with a plain «Thank you». I wish, in this address, to consider certain trends,…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 15, 1923 The Irish Dramatic Movement I have chosen as my theme the Irish Dramatic Movement because when I remember the great honour that you have conferred upon me, I cannot forget many known and unknown persons. Perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written…

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