Lake Poets

Lake Poets

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(Literary & Literary Critical Movements) the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century

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lake poets - English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English romantic poet (1772-1834) Robert Southey, Southey - English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843) William Wordsworth, Wordsworth - a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)