[f. LAKE sb.4 + -IST. Adopted in Fr. as lakiste.] A member or adherent of the ‘Lake School’ of poetry; a Lake poet.
1822. New Monthly Mag., V. 546. Voted at last a rhymer and a pedant by the lakists and cockneys.
a. 1849. Poe, Cockton, Wks. 1864, III. 462. The cant of the Lakists would establish the exact converse.
1883. B’ham Daily Post, 2 April, 5/1. The last surviving son of another ‘Lakist’ has followed him.
So Lakism, affectation of the style of the Lake poets.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 462. The third canto of Childe Harold … which from beginning to end is Lakeism—rank Lakeism.
