sentence1: Embraced by green wooded escarpments and backed by snow-capped Alps, the lake favored by some of England's most romantic 19th-century poets Words?­worth, Shelley, and Byron retains a certain wistful atmosphere for the leisure hours of the Milanese (it's less than an hour from Milan by train or car).
sentence2: Poets enjoyed the lake and surrounding area due to its serene beauty.