vement in order to catch the eye of his new found love.
             In 1891, Yeats founds the National Literary Society at Dublin and the following year, he writes his first play, "The Countess Cathleen" for Maud Gonne, hoping that she will someday play the female lead. He also publishes another volume of Irish fairy tales. At the age of twenty-eight, he begins editing the Celtic Twilight and along with Ellis, edits "The Works of William Blake". Yeats then publishes "The Rose", another collection of poems. Soon after, he visits Paris for the first of many times and writes "The Land of Heart's Desire". In 1896, he has an affair with fellow writer Olivia Shakespeare, but soon returns to the love of his life, Maud Gonne. In another attempt to impress her, Yeats joins the Irish Republican Brotherh
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