Lake Poets

American  

plural noun

1. the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey: so called from their residence in the Lake District.

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Lake Poets British  

plural noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Lake Poets

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

And a bonus track on “Folklore,” titled “The Lakes,” mentions the Lake Poets of 19th-century England.

From Los Angeles Times

De Quincey’s own daughter described him as an “extreme mixture of childish folly joined to a great intellect,” and while that formula doesn’t fit everyone milling around Grasmere in the 1810s, it nevertheless captures what makes accounts of the Lake Poets so habit-forming: the alternately amusing and appalling blend of Romantic grandeur and human folly.

From Slate

But find fault with the Lake Poets, and mention some pretended patron of rising genius, and you need not fear but he will join in with you and go all lengths that you can wish him.

From Project Gutenberg

Branwell delighted in the writings of the 'Lake Poets,' and was much influenced by Southey's prose works.

From Project Gutenberg

The news-agent, who must have lived chiefly a great many years before, steadily sent her mid, early, and pre-Victorian literature; and she, ordering on her own account books advertised in the weekly papers, found herself as a result one day in the placid arms of the Lake Poets, and the next being disciplined by Mr. Marinetti, one day ambling unconcernedly with Lamb, and the next caught in the exquisite intricacies of Mr. Henry James.

From Project Gutenberg