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For example, in 1775 the poet Thomas Gray published a journal of his visit to the area, describing the vale of Grasmere as "an unsuspected paradise." [ 5 ] The first Lakeland visitors' guide (as opposed to a traveller's journal) appeared in 1778, when Thomas West published a route for travellers that included advice on viewing the landscape.
The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
The first page of Ulalume, as the poem first appeared in the American Review in 1847 "Ulalume" (/ ˈ uː l ə l uː m /) is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death.
Robert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i, ˈ s ʌ ð i /; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.
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The Lady of the Lake Poem by Sir Walter Scott, 1810 - the source for Rossini's La donna del lago. The Bride of Lammermoor Novel by Sir Walter Scott, 1819 - the source for Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The Queen of Spades Short story by Alexander Pushkin, 1834 (in English translation) - the source for Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades).
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