Thou lover of fire, how cold is it in the grave? Would I could bring thee fuel and light thee a fire as of old! Alas! how I think of thee there, shivering out in the cold, Till my own bright fire lacketh the heat which it gave! Oh, would I could see thee again, as in days gone by, Sitting hands over the fire, or poking it to a bright blaze And clearing the cloggy ash from the bars in thy careful ways! Oh, art thou the more cold or here by the fire am I? B. H. Blackwell, the Oxford publisher, seems to have made a good many "finds"; besides producing some of the work of Mr. Nichols and Mr. Weaving--both poets now have American publishers as well--the four volumes _Oxford Verse_, running from 1910 to 1917, contain many excellent things. And in addition to these, there are original adventures in the art of poetry, sometimes merely bizarre, but interesting as experiments, exhibited in the two volumes _Wheels 1916_, and _Wheels 1917_, and also in the books called _Initiates: a Series of Poetry by Proved Hands_. CHAPTER VI THE IRISH POETS Irish poetry a part of English Literature--common-sense the basis of romanticism--misapprehension of the poetic temperament--William Butler Yeats--his education--his devotion to art--his theories--his love poetry--resemblance to Maeterlinck--the lyrical element paramount--the psaltery--pure rather than applied poetry--John M. Synge--his mentality--his versatility--a terrible personality--his capacity for hatred--his subjectivity--his interesting Preface--brooding on death--A. E.--The Master of the island--his sincerity and influence--disembodied spirits--his mysticism--homesickness--true optimism--James Stephens--poet and novelist--realism and fantasy--Padraic Colum--Francis Ledwidge--Susan Mitchell--Thomas MacDonagh--Joseph Campbell--Seumas O'Sullivan--Herbert Trench--Maurice Francis Egan--Norreys Jephson O'Conor--F. Carlin--The advance in Ireland.