Cumbrian Poetry
The following poets are known for writing about the area:
- William Wordsworth was born and lived in Cockermouth.
- Norman Nicholson lived in Millom and wrote many poems about his native county
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“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)