Nobel Prize lecture

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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Nobel Prize lecture

German Nobel Lecture, March 27, 1909 (short excerpt)   Naturalismus oder Idealismus? Die Erfahrung der Menschheit zeigt gewisse Fragen, die uralt sind und die zugleich sich immer wieder erneuern: uralt sind sie, weil alle Ge­staltung des Lebens eine Antwort über sie in sich trägt, neu werden sie immer wieder, weil die Verhältnisse, an denen jene…

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