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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection (although these made about a third of the book in length), including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is inspired by The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. [1] Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is inspired in part by The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. [1] P. G. Wodehouse's short story ‘’Uneasy Money’’ quotes the first few lines of the poem.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "It is an Ancient Mariner" 1797-98 1798 Lyrical Ballads Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers "Pensive at eve on the hard world I mus'd," 1797 1797, November Parliamentary Oscillators "Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence," 1798 1798, January 6 Christabel. "The first part of the following ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1]) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
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The poems in Lyrical Ballads were mostly by Wordsworth, though Coleridge contributed one of the great poems of English literature, [21] the long Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a tragic ballad about the survival of one sailor through a series of supernatural events on his voyage through the South Seas, and involves the symbolically significant ...
The heavy metal band Iron Maiden references the albatross in their song "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which is based on the poem of the same title by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Jeff Williams' song "Bad Luck Charm" contains the line "I'm a cursed black cat, I'm an albatross, I'm a mirror broken, Sad to say, I'm your bad luck charm".