 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) 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 principal members of the 'group' were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.Although Dorothy Wordsworth wrote no poetry of her own, she provided much of the inspiration for her brother William's.