What does lake poets mean?
Lake Poetry School, the earliest romantic poetry group in Britain, appeared at the end of 18, represented by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. Named after their seclusion in the lake district of northwest England. They are extremely disgusted with capitalist civilization and the cash transaction relationship between people, and yearn for the feudal society in the Middle Ages. Their poems or eulogizing the patriarchal rural life and natural scenery, or describing strange and mysterious stories and exotic scenery, are generally themes far from social struggle. They often deny the ugly urban civilization by remembering the "simplicity" of the Middle Ages. Wordsworth is the most accomplished poet among the lake poets. 1798, he and Coleridge published a collection of lyric songs. When The Collection of Lyrics was reprinted two years later, Wordsworth prefaced the collection of poems, proposing that poetry is a "natural expression of strong feelings", emphasizing the pastoral life written in folk language and the poet's true feelings. This later became a declaration of British romanticism.