Today’s Poem: Frost at Midnight

Samuel Tayor Coleridge’s hymn to fatherly love

Thin blue flame on glowing embers (Wikimedia Commons)

In February 1798, on the edge of Somerset’s Quantock Hills, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) sat drafting the first exploratory passages of his great poem, The Prelude. At the same time, his friend, collaborator, and neighbor Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was also at work on major poems of his own…