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Yeats's 1912 introduction to Gitanjali helped Tagore receive which honour the next year?
AThe Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
BThe British knighthood (1913)
CElection to the Royal Society
DThe Pulitzer Prize
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. The Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
1. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
2. Yeats's 1912 introduction (Gutenberg #7164) prepared the international reception.
3. Tagore was the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (with W.B. Yeats's 1912 Introduction) — "W.B. Yeats' introduction praises the work's accessibility and universal appeal"_
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