Apart from the gravely delicate and scholarly work of Mr.Bridges, and the poetry of some others who work separately away from their fellows, English romantic poetry has concentrated itself into one chief school--the school of the "Celtic Revival" of which the leader is Mr.W.B.

Yeats.

Two sources went to its making.

In its inception, it arose out of a group of young poets who worked in a conscious imitation of the methods of the French decadents; chiefly of Baudelaire and Verlaine.

As a whole their work was merely imitative and not very profound, but each of them--Ernest Dowson and Lionel Johnson, who are both now dead, and others who are still living--produced enough to show that they had at their command a vein of poetry that might have deepened and proved more rich had they gone on working it.