‘These poems put the Lake District at the heart of the English literary imagination.’ James Rebanks

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Charles Lamb – the English ‘lake poets’ – were famously inspired by the landscape of the English Lake District in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This beautifully produced anthology of their work includes favourites such as ‘I Wander’d Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘Kubla Khan,’ as well as extracts from letters and journals. Introduced by James Rebanks, who grew up in the region, it is the perfect companion for visitors to the Lakes and a delightful gift for poetry lovers.  

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'"They put the Lake District at the heart of the English literary imagination," writes Rebanks in a thoughtful introduction to this anthology. The Cumbrian farmer who shot to fame with A Shepherd’s Life reminds us that, far from being fops wandering lonely as clouds, the Lake Poets were radicals. One for thoughtful readers.'