The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Overview

In this poem, a mariner recounts his life at sea and the horrible fate his ship endures after he shoots down an albatross.

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Author Information

Bio of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Born in Ottery St. Mary, England, in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge studied revolutionary ideas at Cambridge before leaving to enlist in the Dragoons. After his plans to start a communist society in the United States with his friend Robert Southey, later named poet laureate of England, were botched, Coleridge instead turned his attention to teaching and journalism in Bristol. Coleridge married Southey's sister-in-law Sara Fricker, and they moved to Nether Stowey, where they became close friends with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. From this friendship a new poetry emerged, one that focused on Neoclassic artificiality. In later years, their relationship became strained, partly due to Coleridge's moral collapse brought on by opium use, but more importantly because of his rejection of Wordworth's animistic views of nature.

Customer Reviews

• A song

  Posted March 31, 2008 by Jade, Wyoming USA

  This poem always gets to me. When you recite it aloud you can almost hear it as a song. A song with background scenes. Not only does the wedding guest walk away changed from listening to the story of the mariner but you walk away slightly altered yourself. A short, interesting, and visually imaginative read.

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Imprint

CONNECT eBooks Classics

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366.96 KB

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eBook ISBN

9781434000446