Which Irish poet of "The Second Coming" won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923?

In December 1923, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his always inspired poetry". He is mostly noted for using a highly artistic form which was able to give expression to the spirit of the whole Irish nation of Ireland.

As a writer, it was pointed out that Yeats's writing was like great art. Ultimately, his writings provided the true meaning of art. Both the meaning as a literary symbol and the greater symbol of the work (poem), as art itself, was seen by him as a joint achievement for the artist (writer) and the audience.

For Yeats, he put all the richness he could into his writings. Critics noted, "He takes a word and derives the world from it." An intelligent reader is able to gather all the symbols contained in a poem into himself. "A poetical passage cannot be understood," Yeats said, "without a rich memory and the ability to find rhythm in human vocabulary."

Thus, to comprehend Yeats and his written works, somewhere between the writer and the reader his poetry is born. "Poetic symbols drawn all together will create the harmony required to find a great poem. The symbolic things themselves are more eloquent than the mere words from which they are compounded."