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The poets of the “Lake School”
Reactionary tendencies in English literature found reflection in the activities of the “Lakists” – 
W. Wordsworth (1770-1850), S. Coleridge
(1772-1834),
and 
R. Southey (1774-1843).
All of 
them belonged to the “Lake School”, called so after the Lakeland in the Northern part of 
England, where the poets spent much time and beauties of the land they described in the poems.
Early in their literary carrier the three poets were interested in the burning social problems of 
contemporary life. In some of their poems they depicted the life of the peasants brought to ruin 
by the development of capitalism in the country, exposed unjust laws and protested against cruel 
wars. 

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They hailed the French Revolution but their sympathy for it was not lasting and eventually the 
poets came to side with the reactionary policy of the British Government which suppressed all 
traces of protest at home and declared its hostility to the revolution in France. Nevertheless, 
most of the poems written by them are great from the stand point of poetic art. W. Wordsworth 
and S. Coleridge jointly wrote and published the collection of “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798. Many 
of the poems in the collection were devoted to the position of landless and homeless peasants.
Sincerely sympathizing with the poor, they at the same time severely criticized capitalism. But 
in their criticism they idealized backward patriarchal form of society. 
The poets were passionate lovers of nature and the description of lakes and rivers of meadows 
and woods, of skies and clouds are exquisite. In their poems they, especially Wordsworth, aimed 
at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18
th
century poetry.