"Frost at Midnight" is one of Coleridge's most well-known poems, and a fantastic example of what has come to be known as the Greater Romantic Lyric. Tim and Andrew discuss Coleridge's attitudes to the natural world, to childhood, and to the imagination - and how the French Revolution inspired poets in this period to imagine a new world.

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