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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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By (author): Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.'

Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by Gustave Doré, the most remarkable wood engraver of the nineteenth century, and an introduction by writer and journalist Ned Halley.

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself, and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and ultimately redemption.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 154g
  • Dimensions: 100 x 157mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Sep 2017
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781509842919

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in the English town of Ottery St Mary where his father was a vicar in 1772. The youngest of ten children he attended school with Charles Lamb and spent two years at Jesus College Cambridge where he was introduced to radical politics and theology by the poet Robert Southey. He first met William Wordsworth in 1795 and they published a joint poetry collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798; this highly praised volume which started the English Romantic Movement contained the first version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Alongside finding success with his poetry Coleridges critical work especially on Shakespeare was highly influential. However much of his life was blighted by illness opium addiction financial problems and depression. He died of heart failure in London in 1834.

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