Facts : 1 The Celtic revival Probably the most significant poetic movement of the second half of the 19th century was French Symbolism
Facts : 2 Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry
Facts : 3 However, the overtly cosmopolitan Wilde was not to have much influence on the future course of Irish writing
Facts : 4 Yeats, too, was influenced by his French contemporaries but consciously focused on an identifiably Irish content
Facts : 5 As such, he was responsible for the establishment of the literary movement known as the Celtic Revival
Facts : 6 Apart from Yeats, much of the impetus for the Celtic Revival came from the work of scholarly translators who were aiding in the discovery of both the ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish