Possible Clues:

• Poet finding energy in features of mountainous area
• Leo cried terribly absorbing good poet
• English poet
• Mad Hatter this writer might give cigarette holder
• Between two mountain features, spot English poet
• Samuel Taylor - - , co-author of Lyrical Ballads
• French writer - down to earth - is arable in a way
• Samuel Taylor . . . . . . . . ., eminent poet
• Pass over English hill-range, being one of the Lake poets
• Samuel Taylor . . . . . . . . . who wrote 'The Ancient Mariner'