Take me to the Lakes whereall the poets went to dieI don’t belong, and mybeloved, neither do youThose Windermere peakslook like a perfect place to cryI’m setting off, but notwithout my muse…
So wrote global phenomenon Taylor Swift (inset) about the Lake District, an area she got to know during her six-year relationship with the English actor Joe Alwyn.
With her 11th studio album titled The Tortured Poets Department, the musician appears ready to unleash more songs about anguished versifiers. The early signs look promising: one of the bonus tracks is titled ‘The Albatross’, which must surely be a meditation on the misused seabird in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
Though it’s not historically accurate to say that all the poets went to the Lake District to die, as Swift avers (though if you can't take poetic licence when writing about poets, when can you?), Britain has certainly had its fair share of
