Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Unlike many famous poets, Yeats did a lot of his best writing between the ages of 50 and 75. Late bloomer, we guess. (Source.)
For much of his life, Yeats was obsessed with a woman named Maud Gonne. The thing is she wasn't all that into him for many, many years. Poor guy. (Source.)
In 1923, Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet he might be the only writer ever to produce his best work after getting the Nobel. (Source.)