The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Is One Of The Most Famous Three Poems Of S
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most famous three poems of S. T. Coleridge. It was first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798, a collection of poems that essentially launched the movement known as British Romanticism. The first version of the poem was entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, and much of the spelling was very archaic (old expression). Modern editions used today appeared in Coleridge's collection Sibylline Leaves in 1817 that featured marginal glosses, explanations on allegorical feel of the poem and scholarly notes, added or removed stanzas, and changed the tense of verbs.
{Originally, Coleridge and Wordsworth intended to write this poem in collaboration. Wordsworth found that the style of Coleridge and himself would not assimilate. After contributing half a dozen lines [Part II, Lines 13-16 and Lines 226-227] and suggesting the shooting of the albatross and “the reanimation of the dead bodies to work the ship,” Wordsworth withdrew on 23 March, 1798, and Coleridge proceeded alone. }
This poem was said to have been inspired by several historical sources. These included Captain James Cook's voyages, the legend of the Wandering Jew, and especially Captain George Shelvocke’s A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726), which is the book that Wordsworth was reading as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in 1798.The book described how one of the shipmates, called Simon Hatley shot an albatross that he believed had made the wind disappear. The other source was founded on a dream of Coleridge's friend Cruikshank, who fancied he saw a skeleton ship, with figures in it.
{ Captain James Cook's voyages : On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.
The legend of the Wandering Jew : As Christ was carrying His cross to Golgotha, He stopped for a moment
{Originally, Coleridge and Wordsworth intended to write this poem in collaboration. Wordsworth found that the style of Coleridge and himself would not assimilate. After contributing half a dozen lines [Part II, Lines 13-16 and Lines 226-227] and suggesting the shooting of the albatross and “the reanimation of the dead bodies to work the ship,” Wordsworth withdrew on 23 March, 1798, and Coleridge proceeded alone. }
This poem was said to have been inspired by several historical sources. These included Captain James Cook's voyages, the legend of the Wandering Jew, and especially Captain George Shelvocke’s A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726), which is the book that Wordsworth was reading as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in 1798.The book described how one of the shipmates, called Simon Hatley shot an albatross that he believed had made the wind disappear. The other source was founded on a dream of Coleridge's friend Cruikshank, who fancied he saw a skeleton ship, with figures in it.
{ Captain James Cook's voyages : On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.
The legend of the Wandering Jew : As Christ was carrying His cross to Golgotha, He stopped for a moment