Noun
English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it
Source: WordNetWordsworth, 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