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
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a ra
Lake Poets
…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, Mary Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge…
Portrait of Robert Southey by John Opie, 1806
Wine Street, Bristol (1872)
Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London
Peter Vandyke, Portrait of Robert Southey, Aged 21, 1795