The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an incredible poem. Haunting and thrilling, it captivated the reader with its superlative descriptive writing. Coleridge describes the endless sea from the vastness of icy Antartica to the smooth tropical seas. The mariner has visions of sea monsters and Death, who plays a dice game in which Death wins the lives of his ship's crew. The mariner recounts a nightmare voyage to the South Pole from which he alone survives to tell the tale.
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but its still the best attempt at a study guide for lyrical ballads ive seen. it has a summary of each poem which is useful and a short glossary of words that might seem hard.
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but its still the best attempt at a study guide for lyrical ballads ive seen. it has a summary of each poem which is useful and a short glossary of words that might seem hard.
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Overall this is a very useful and detailed collection, however if you are buying as a A level text be careful as it is a newer edition so many poems are different than other texts and some are completely missing. For the collection on the syllabus i had to find poems on the internet or copy from another book!!!
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Overall this is a very useful and detailed collection, however if you are buying as a A level text be careful as it is a newer edition so many poems are different than other texts and some are completely missing. For the collection on the syllabus i had to find poems on the internet or copy from another book!!!
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This edition includes not only the unavoidable "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Christabel", and "Kubla Khan", but also Coledridge's long aesthetical study, the "Biographia Literaria", in full (just for this treat, these "Major Works" would be worth buying) and some of his letters, notebooks and marginalia...not to mention selections from "The Friend" and the "Lay Sermons".
Why don't I rate it with 5 stars? First of all, I believe this anthology would definitely gain from a fuller critical apparatus. Then, it'd do no harm to include the two versions of "The Ancient Mariner", as well as "Dejection: a Letter". Last but not least, I think the selections from Coleridge's "Table Talk" and "Lectures on Shakespeare" (in spite of their ... Read More:
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And all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." These famous lines, like the opening lines of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, are often quoted, but I sometimes wonder if the people who quote them have read this wonderful poem. The poem is full of mystery and horror, from the Mariner stopping the wedding guest, to the incident w/ the albatros, to the gambling of Death and Death-In-Life... I could go on and on. The language is so rich, and the poet's comments make the content more clear for anyone who becomes confused. The illustrations of this edition are beautiful and definately complement the text. This is a haunting poem that you will want to read again and again. If you have not read it before, ... Read More:
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And all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." These famous lines, like the opening lines of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, are often quoted, but I sometimes wonder if the people who quote them have read this wonderful poem. The poem is full of mystery and horror, from the Mariner stopping the wedding guest, to the incident w/ the albatros, to the gambling of Death and Death-In-Life... I could go on and on. The language is so rich, and the poet's comments make the content more clear for anyone who becomes confused. The illustrations of this edition are beautiful and definately complement the text. This is a haunting poem that you will want to read again and again. If you have not read it before, ... Read More:
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And all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." These famous lines, like the opening lines of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, are often quoted, but I sometimes wonder if the people who quote them have read this wonderful poem. The poem is full of mystery and horror, from the Mariner stopping the wedding guest, to the incident w/ the albatros, to the gambling of Death and Death-In-Life... I could go on and on. The language is so rich, and the poet's comments make the content more clear for anyone who becomes confused. The illustrations of this edition are beautiful and definately complement the text. This is a haunting poem that you will want to read again and again. If you have not read it before, ... Read More:
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And all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." These famous lines, like the opening lines of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, are often quoted, but I sometimes wonder if the people who quote them have read this wonderful poem. The poem is full of mystery and horror, from the Mariner stopping the wedding guest, to the incident w/ the albatros, to the gambling of Death and Death-In-Life... I could go on and on. The language is so rich, and the poet's comments make the content more clear for anyone who becomes confused. The illustrations of this edition are beautiful and definately complement the text. This is a haunting poem that you will want to read again and again. If you have not read it before, ... Read More:
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