The Irish poet ________ won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, becoming the first Irish citizen to do so.
- Seamus Heaney
- W.B. Yeats
- James Joyce
- Samuel Beckett
Answer: W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.