Lake Poets

Lake Poets (Eng. "Lake Poets" ) also Lakists or Lake School was from 1817 in use as a term for a small group of English Romantic poet who in the Lake District of Cumberland (now Cumbria ) settled.

It was initiated by William Wordsworth, who lived in Grasmere in December 1799. To live closer to Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved in August 1800 to Keswick. There, in 1803, Robert Southey settled.

Especially in the resulting here " nature poetry " and the elegiac mood of sentimental poetry, the beauty of the Lake District theme repeatedly. The initial romantic enthusiasm for the French Revolution gave way later than in the years of terror in France a politically reactionary attitude.

Representative

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Southey