CHAPTER I

. ALFRED NOBEL: THE CONDITIONS OF HIS WILL AND LITERARY RESULTS 1

II. POETS OF FRANCE AND PROVENCE 21

Sully-Prudhomme (1901) 21

Frédéric Mistral (1904) 31

III. TWO GERMAN SCHOLARS 42

Theodor Mommsen (1902) 42

Rudolf Eucken (1908) 48

IV. BJÖRNSON: NORWEGIAN NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT (1903) 58

V. GIOSUÈ CARDUCCI--ITALIAN POET (1906) 72

VI. THE WRITINGS OF RUDYARD KIPLING BEFORE AND AFTER THE AWARD (1907) 85

VII. SELMA LAGERLÖF--SWEDISH REALIST AND IDEALIST (1909) 104

VIII. PAUL HEYSE (1910)--GERHART HAUPTMANN (1912) 124

IX. MAETERLINCK--BELGIAN SYMBOLIST AND POET-PLAYWRIGHT (1911) 148

X. RABINDRANATH TAGORE--BENGALESE MYSTIC-POET (1913) 159

XI. ROMAIN ROLLAND AND _JEAN-CHRISTOPHE_ (1915) 175

XII. A GROUP OF WINNERS--NOVELISTS AND POETS 189

Verner Von Heidenstam (1916) 189

Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) 197

Karl Gjellerup (1917) 201

Carl Spitteler (1919) 205

XIII. KNUT HAMSUN AND HIS NOVELS OF NORWEGIAN LIFE (1920) 213

XIV. ANATOLE FRANCE--VERSATILE STYLIST IN FICTION AND ESSAYS (1921) 224

XV. TWO SPANISH DRAMATISTS 239

José Echegaray (1904) 239

Jacinto Benavente (1922) 247

XVI. W. B. YEATS AND HIS PART IN THE CELTIC REVIVAL (1923) 253

XVII. HONORS TO POLISH FICTION 264

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) 264

Ladislaw Stanislaw Reymont (1924) 269

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN LITERATURE 277

BIBLIOGRAPHY 279

INDEX 301

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

ALFRED NOBEL _Frontispiece_

FRÉDÉRIC MISTRAL 32

BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON 58

RUDYARD KIPLING 86

SELMA LAGERLÖF 104

GERHART HAUPTMANN 134

MAURICE MAETERLINCK 148

RABINDRANATH TAGORE 160

ROMAIN ROLLAND 176

KNUT HAMSUN 214

ANATOLE FRANCE 224

JACINTO BENAVENTE 248

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 254

HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ 264

THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN LITERATURE

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