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- noun derogatory, historical A member of the Lake Poets, a group of
English Romantic poets from theLake District .
Etymologies
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lake + -ist
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Examples
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The exceptions were Wordsworth and his immediate Lakist followers, Landor and Bulwer, of whom the latter two continued to produce.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877
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He deplored his having dealt too harshly with poor Blackett, as soon as the latter's position became known to him; and also with Keats, whose talent, though great, was raw in many respects, and who had become a follower of the Lakist school, which Byron abhorred.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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