The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single ‘school’ of thought or literary practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey were the three main figures of what has become known as the Lake School. They were associated with several other poets and writers including Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey.