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 the Cumberland Lake area in northwest England, and lived in Glasgow and Devon successively.
Coleridge
Degmer lived by two lakes and praised the lakes and mountains with poems, so he was called "the poet of lakes and mountains".
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 Hu School poets have made contributions in the struggle against classicism and made profound achievements in the art of poetry, their historical position is far less important than that of the retreat school. 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.
China's Lake Poet Poet
In the early 1920s, in the history of modern literature in China, four young people set up a small poetry group in West Lake. They imitated the style of English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge in19th century, and pretended to be China's "Lake Poets". In 1922, they published their first book of poetry, entitled Lakeside. The four poets are Pan Mohua, Ying Xiuren, Wang Jingzhi and Feng Xuefeng. They often gathered in Hangzhou at that time and wrote down their feelings with the scenery and people of the West Lake as the background. But these young people, who were only in their twenties at that time, did not form a landscape like the English "Lake Poets" except for leaving a little ripple in the history of literature, and now they have almost been forgotten.