T.S.Eliot's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, based on the strength of his poetry, prose, essays, and plays. The Nobel Foundation has an excellent page of resources dedicated to the great author, including the text of his acceptance speech when the prize was awarded. He states: " And I take the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, when it is given to a poet, to be primarily an assertion of the supra-national value of poetry. To make that affirmation, it is necessary from time to time to designate a poet: and I stand before you, not on my own merits, but as a symbol, for a time, of the significance of poetry."

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