In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of…
The Lake School or Lake Poets were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, who all lived in the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland. The…
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In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping...
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The Lake School or Lake Poets were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, who all lived in the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland. The Edinburgh Review under Francis Jeffrey attacked them as a group for their plain diction and cult of simplicity. George Crabbe was a realist poet of Suffolk, Byron mocked the Lake poets (Southey above all) in Don Juan, and Hazlitt was a critic and essayist, not one of the group.
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