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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, included in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 collection *Lyrical Ballads*, is a masterful long ballad that helped usher in modern British poetry. In it a learned mariner stops a pilgrim en route to a wedding and narrates the extraordinary events of a perilous voyage—touching on human-animal relations, seafaring life, and the supernatural. Through its vivid imagery of albatrosses, the sea, and a curse, the poem explores themes of penance, redemption, and the moral consequences of actions. The work’s rhythmic craftsmanship and evocative setting have made it a staple in studies of English narrative poetry and classic literature.
First publish date: 1836
Genre: Poetry/Narrative Poetry
Authors: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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