Lake Poets
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The Lake Poets is a term used for a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of North West England, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "s
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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Lake Poets
…Edinburgh Review. They are considered part of the English Romantic movement. The three main figures of what has become 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…
Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
Wordsworth's birthplace in Cockermouth, Cumbria
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.