The Illustrated Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Softcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492902543 ISBN 13: 9781492902546

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Coleridge's enigmatic, mysterious and haunting poem here enhanced by Gustave Dore's equally haunting and memorable illustrations.

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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: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492902543
• ISBN 13: 9781492902546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78
• Editor: Jonson Will
• Illustrator: Dore Gustave