The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Complete, Authoritative Texts of the 1798 and 1817 Versions With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical ... (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) - Softcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312112238 ISBN 13: 9780312112233

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2000

Synopsis

This edition of Coleridge's poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner contains both the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays focused on reader response, Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, and new historical.

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Review:

"Astonishingly, the poem's spell doesn't seem to weaken over the years... The scenery remains thrillingly hellish, while laced with photographically realistic meteorological effects, and the narrative drive is irresistible" (Guardian)

"Some of his [Coleridge's] poems are indisputably great, and the greatest is probably 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'" (Daily Telegraph)

"The greatest sea poem in the language" (Jonathan Raban)

"The Poem contains many delicate touches of passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity of language; and the versification, though the metre is itself unfit for long poems, is harmonious and artfully varied, exhibiting the utmost powers of that metre, and every variety of which it is capable" (William Wordsworth)

From the Publisher:

With illustrations by Mervyn Peake
With a new introduction by Marina Warner

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312112238
• ISBN 13: 9780312112233
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Fry Paul H.