The Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING **

Language: English

Published by Bramhall House, New York, 1965

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** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING hardcover book in blue cloth boards with black lettering. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. Pages are clean, crisp and bright. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped. Shows small nicks, light rubbing on the corners and edges and a 0.25 x 1" piece missing at rear. Dust jacket remains crisp and bright. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now to request pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Synopsis Coleridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or studied today. This annotated version by Martin Gardner will help to renew the appreciation and deepen the understanding of Coleridge's unjustly neglected masterpiece.Preceding the poem is a biographical sketch of the great poet, which emphasizes those aspects of his many-sided life and personality that have the strongest bearing on the poem, especially on circumstances surrounding its composition. Both the 1798 and 1834 versions of the poem are presented, with notes on words, lines, and stanzas that Coleridge later excised. Following the poem, Gardner summarizes major critical attitudes toward the ballad, discusses possible higher levels of meaning, and closes with questions concerning the poem's much-debated moral.Many artists have illustrated the Rime, but none as skillfully as Gustave Dore. He was far and away the most popular and prolific book illustrator of all time, and though his work has been out of fashion for some time, it is becoming harder and harder to dismiss him as a mere yeoman illustrator.Here is your chance to read, or reread, Coleridge's classic Rime, to fully understand it, and to relish Dore's magnificent illustrations.

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Title
The Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING **
Author
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (with Introduction and Notes by Gardner, Martin)
Publisher
Bramhall House, New York
Publication year
1965
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Dore, Gustave

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