Famous Poets of the Lake District

Being home to some of the most beautiful land in England qualifying campaign certainly inspiring Lake District. No wonder that the region has become famous for attracting dreamers and writers who became known as the Lake Poets. The term refers to a group of poets who lived in the Lake District at the turn of the nineteenth century. Although they are known collectively as part of the Romantic movement in literature, the poets of the Lake District did not follow a particular school of thought or literary style known at the time they wrote. All were simply attracted by the beauty of the lakes and surrounding hills.




Although the work of the poets of the lake was officially banned and widely criticized by organizations such as the Edinburgh Review, several of them have become widely respected. The most notable of them probably William Wordsworth, who was one of the few to have been born in the area, a few kilometers from Bassenthwaite. Although he left the area for a long trip to Germany with his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in late 1798, Wordsworth finally returned to the lake with his sister Dorothy and his wife Sarah, and settled Grasmere.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the famous composer of Ballad of the Ancient Mariner is also considered one of the Lake Poets, so he lived only ten miles from Wordsworth at Greta Hall in Keswick. Despite the peace and serenity of the hills and moors, Coleridge met many conflicts due to its introduction into the Great Lakes. Marital problems, an unfortunate addiction to opium and common diseases troubled poet, eventually leading to the composition of the poem An Ode allocation.

Besides being one of the Lake Poets, English native Robert Southey was also a test of letters and writer, biographer and historian and specialist in the general literature. He is most famous for being named poet laureate of Britain in 1813, a title he held until his death 30 years later, and by the life and work of historical figures such as John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. The biographies of many of the men mentioned above are still in print today. Although sometimes forgotten in the shining glory of his henchmen in the lake, Southey has made great contributions to romantic literature, and is the origin of the story of Goldilocks and the three bears story, which is loved by children of worldwide.