LAKE POETS

AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ROMANTIC POETRY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

ROBERT SOUTHEY

The Lake Poets were a group of English poets inhabited the Lake District of England United Kingdom at the close of the nineteenth century. They followed no single "school" of thought which was known to have existed. They were named, only to be uniformly ridiculed , by the Edinburgh Review. They are considered to be part of the Romantic Movement.

The three main figures of what come to be known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. They were associated with several other poets and writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb , Charles Lloyd,  Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey.

The beauty of the Lake District has inspired many writers beyond the core Lake Poets. These include their contemporaries Bryan Procter, Felicia Hemans, and Walter Scott, as well as the labouring-class and slightly later John Close, who catered particularly to the growing tourist trade. Other poets include James Payn, and Norman Nicholson.

Recollection of the Lake Poets

Recollections of the Lake Poets is a collection of biographical essays written by the English author Thomas De Quincey. In the originally published essays by De Quincey in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine between 1834 and 1840, he provided some of the earliest, best informed, and most truthful accounts of the Lake Poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, and others in their circle. The essays collectively "form one of the most entertaining of Lakeland books”.

REFERENCES1.Wikipedia2.www.google.com3. De Quincey, Thomas. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. Edited by David Wright; New York, Penguin, 1970.4. "William Wordsworth - The Lake Poets", 60 min VHS (1994) and DVD (2004), produced by Jule Gammond and directed by Stephen Gammond, contributors: Jonathan Wordsworth, Robert Woof, Pamela Woof, Molly Lefebure, Grevel Lindop and Ted Hughes.