Poets of the Lake School

With its poetic creativity and theoretical innovations, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Kalridge and Robert Sauti opened the era of romanticism in English literature, who united them for the history of the poets of the Lake School, or "Lakeists". The poets looked in a new way to folk social and poetic gusts, to a revolutionary terror and nature of the beautiful, having passed a difficult way to aware of historical cataclysms, both as partial contemporaries and as great poetic converters who understood the need for a new poetic language that should correspond to a new era When all of Europe, one way or another, felt the influence of the Great French Revolution. "The works of English poets ... are filled with deep feelings and poetic thoughts expressed by the language of honest commoner, wrote about them by A.S. Pushkin, who highly appreciated the work of English poets, his senior contemporaries, recognizing teachers in them to young people in Russian poetry .
Compiled by L. I. Volodarskaya