The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged, by the Edinburgh Review. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement.
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820
Rydal Mount, home to Wordsworth 1813–1850. Hundreds of visitors came here to see him over the years
Greta Hall, Keswick – home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800–1804; home to Robert Southey, 1803–1843
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and the Cumbrian mountains; and for its literary associations with Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, and the Lake Poets.
The Skiddaw massif, town of Keswick and Derwent Water seen from Walla Crag
The A591 road as it passes through the countryside between Ambleside and Grasmere
A panorama from the summit of Scafell Pike, August 2007
Panorama of the Wasdale screes descending into Wastwater, the deepest lake in England.
