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Lake Poets

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Lake Poets, Lake School, terms applied to Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and sometimes to De Quincey, who lived in the Lake District. The expression ‘Lake School’ seems first to appear in the Edinburgh Review of August 1817. In his Recollections of the Lake Poets, De Quincey denies the existence of any such ‘school’.

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Lake Poets

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Lake Poets the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth, who lived in and were inspired by the Lake District; they are also known as the Lake School. Both terms are first recorded in the Edinburgh Review of 1816; the pejorative Lakers, however, antedates them by two years.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Lake Poets." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Lake Poets." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-LakePoets.html

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Lake poets

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Lake poets Three English poets ( William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey) who lived in the Lake District around 1800.

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