ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lake poet, any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey were the three main Lake Poets.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey became known as the Lake Poets in the early years of the nineteenth century when critic Francis Jeffrey conferred this designation on them.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Wordsworth is one of Britain’s most famous poets, who lived from 1770 til 1850. His ‘Daffodils’ poem beginning “I wander’d lonely as a cloud” is the quintessential Lake District poem. He was born in Cockermouth, just north of the National Park, and went to school in Hawkshead.

Detailed explanation-5: -Recollections of the Lake Poets is a collection of biographical essays written by the English author Thomas De Quincey.