lake poets

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Meaning

English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it

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Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the " Lake Poets ". Source: Internet

In the period when they were writing, the Lake Poets were widely regarded as a marginal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer William Hazlitt and others. Source: Internet

Thomas de Quincey alleges in his Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets that it was during this period that Coleridge became a full-blown opium addict, using the drug as a substitute for the lost vigour and creativity of his youth. Source: Internet

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