1880's before moving back to Dublin in 1881, where he attended Erasmus Smith High School. The following year, Yeats moves to Islandview and falls in love with his distant cousin Laura Armstrong, with whom he has a short-lived romance due to her lack of interest in him. Yeats needs to leave Islandview and Laura behind after being rejected, thus he enrolls in the School of Art in Dublin at the age of nineteen. The following year, his first poems ware published in the Dublin University review and he joins literary clubs in his area.
             In 1886, Yeats begins to immerse himself in the folk tales of Ireland, researching Gaelic legends and beginning to write about Ireland and its history. At this time, the Irish Literary Renaissance is beginning and Yeats, along with other Irish writers begins writing not only about Ireland, but his works are also directed toward an Irish audience. When Yeats is twenty-two, his mother suffers two strokes during a period of illness and Yeats moves with his family to London. He then joins the literary circle at the Kelmscott House of William Morris. This begins a period in Yeats' writing in which he is greatly influenced by the literary works of Shelley and Spenser (Jeffares, xiii). In 1888, Yeats publishes some of his writings in American journals, and for the first time, he becomes known outside of Great Britain. He works as an editor, reviewer, and critic in the Bodleian, a publication at Oxford. The following year, Yeats publishes "Crossways", his first book of poetry and later in the year, "The Wanderings of Oisin", which includes more poems. He meets Oscar Wilde, Edwin Ellis, with whom he collaborates in writing "Fairy and Folk Tales" that year, and Maud Gonne, to whom he is immediately attracted. However, she is an Irish revolutionary and remains uninterested in his quiet, literary nature. He is thus influenced to become involved in the Irish Revolutionary Mo...