A brief introduction to the school of lake poets

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. Because the three of them once lived in seclusion in Cumberland Lake District, northwest England, and lived by two lakes, Grassmill and Windmeier, and praised the lakes and mountains with poems, they were called "Lake Poets".

They all lived in the lake district of Cumbria, Wordsworth's hometown in northwest England for many years. They all wrote many pastoral poems praising lakes and mountains, and they all had the ideological tendency of "returning to nature". In the Edinburgh Review of August 18 17, their pen pal Francis Jeffrey nicknamed it "lake poets" or "Lakeside School". Byron reduced them to "people by the lake". Generally speaking, Huxiang poets represent the negative romantic tendency, while Devil School represents the positive romantic spirit. Although the Lake School poets have made great contributions to the struggle against classicism and made great achievements in the art of poetry, their historical position is far less important than Satan's. They yearned for the French Revolution in their early years, then turned to a conservative position and advocated the restoration of the feudal patriarchal clan system. 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. Among them, Wordsworth's Lyric Ballads became the declaration of English romanticism. His masterpiece is Tinden Abbey. Coleridge's masterpiece is Ode to an Ancient Ship, which is full of mysterious and grotesque colors. Southey's long poem Phantom of the Trial is a flattering work of the British royal family.