Lake poets is a representative of early English romanticism. It refers to a school of poetry formed by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, three poets living in Cumberland Lake District in northern England. In literature, * * * opposes the classical tradition, yearns for sentimentalism and praises nature. Deny the realistic urban civilization by recalling the simplicity of the Middle Ages.
ROBERTSOUTHEY (1, 1774- 1843), an English writer, is one of the poets of the Lake Poetry School. A "negative romantic" poet, who was radical and later opposed to the French Revolution, was named poet laureate by the king in 18 13. As an early romantic, under his leadership, folk poetry revived. He tried to use irregular blank verse, and was a pioneer of 19 century and 20 century free verse movement.
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), an English poet and critic, spent his whole life in the shadow of poverty, disease and poverty, with relatively few poems. Despite these unfavorable factors, Coleridge insisted on writing and established his position as a major romantic poet in fantasy romantic poetry.
3. William Wordsworth (1770- 1850), an English romantic poet, was once a poet laureate. His poetic theory has shaken the rule of English classical poetics and strongly promoted the innovation of English poetry and the development of Romantic movement. He is one of the most important English poets since the Renaissance, and his poem Simple Life and Rational Thinking is regarded as the motto of Cable College of Oxford University.