湖畔詩人

湖畔詩人（Lake Poets）是19世紀前半期生活於英格蘭湖區的一批詩人，除去生活在湖區這一點之外，他們的寫作風格其實沒有太多相同點，只不過可以籠統地算入浪漫主義文學的範疇。

命名

湖畔詩人（亦稱Lake Poet School、Bards of the Lake、Lake School）最初是一個貶義詞，給人一種憂鬱、滿腹牢騷的印象^[1]^[2]。後來漸漸失去貶義，讀者們開始喜歡上他們詩歌中描繪的湖區風景^[3]。

^ Coleridge (1983), p. 51.
^ Wilson, Frances (2009). A Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: a Life New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
^ Bradshaw (2011), p. 79.

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De Quincey, Thomas. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. Edited by David Wright; New York, Penguin, 1970.
Nicholson, Norman. The Lakers : the adventures of the first tourists [reprint of 1955 ed. published by Robert Hale]. Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press. 1995: 1–200. ISBN 1852841753.
Thompson, Ian. The English Lakes : a history. London : New York: Bloomsbury. 2010: [viii],[1]-343. ISBN 9780747598381.
Victoria and Albert Museum. The discovery of the Lake District : a Northern Arcadia and its uses. [London]: V & A. 1984: [1]-174. ISBN 0905209966.

Lindop, Grevel. A literary guide to the Lake District 3rd. Ammanford: Sigma Leisure. 2015: xii, 356. ISBN 9781910758120.