Lake Poets, Lake School

Lake Poets, Lake School,
terms applied to Coleridge , Southey , Wordsworth , and sometimes to De Quincey , who lived in the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th cent. The expression ‘Lake School’ seems first to appear in the Edinburgh Review of Aug. 1817 . Byron makes play with the term, and in the dedication to Don Juan ( 1819 ) refers slightingly to ‘all the Lakers’. In his Recollections of the Lake Poets De Quincey denies the existence of any such ‘school’.