[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. 462/2. The third canto of Childe Harold … which from beginning to end is Lakeism—rank Lakeism.
