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Definition of Lake poets
1. Noun. English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it.
Member holonyms: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Southey, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth
Definition of Lake poets
1. Noun. (plural of lake poet) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Poets
Literary usage of Lake poets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"THE Lakes hardly count in the scenery of Thomas de Quincey's* visions, and his
medium is prose ; but even so, he may be called one of the greater lake poets ..."
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School by Alois Brandl (1887)
"... Mariner "—" Christabel "— Lyrical Ballads—Contemporary Criticism of " Ancient
Mariner "—The term "lake poets"—Money Embarrassments—Preaching—Hazlitt ..."
3. Book-auction Recordsby Frank Karslake by Frank Karslake (1907)
"The first deals with books and prints respecting the English Lakes and the Lake
Poets—always an interesting subject. The second contains" "Bargains in Books ..."
4. Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of by Addy Sage Richardson (1892)
"ON SOME FRIENDS OF THE lake poets. 'T^HERE are many interesting writers, in prose
as well 1 as verse, who wrote at the time the Lake School was rising to ..."
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