Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest work, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or studied today. This annotated version by Martin Gardner will help to renew the appreciation and deepen the understanding of Coleridge's unjustly neglected masterpiece. Preceding the poem is a biographical sketch of the great poet, which emphasizes those aspects of his many-sided life and personality that have the strongest bearing on the poem, especially on circumstances surrounding its composition.
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"For those who have not read the poem since a university English class, Gardner makes it well worth revisiting." -- Baltimore Sun, September 14, 2003
"The engravings by Gustave Dore are exquisite and worth the price on their own." -- The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2003
"The engravings by Gustave Dore are exquisite and worth the price on their own." -- The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2003
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One of the most evocative, famous, and mysterious poems in the English language is undoubtedly Samuel Taylor Coleridge's THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. This seaman's story--full of symbols, strange occurrences, moral implications, and moral ambuguity--has fascinated scholars and lovers of verse. This edition is not only the most comprehensive and informative available but also the most elegant ever to appear.
Martin Gardner, well known for his ANNOTATED ALICE, has written an introduction, a brief biography of Coleridge, copious explanatory notes to the text that are designed to deepen the reader's understanding of the ballad, and a chapter summing up the major critical attitudes toward the poem in which he also discusses possible higher levels of meaning. He closes with questions concerning the poem's much-debated moral. Included also is the first published version of the RIME--significantly different from the final version--and a selected bibliography.
The illustrations by Gustave Dore are in his famous style of "romantic realism" and are especially suitable to the tone of the text. This book, like THE ANNOTATED ALICE, should be on everyone's bookshelf.
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This is well worth having, not only because of the fine annotations but also the wonderful illustrations. Some annotations, for me, seem to get in the way of reading the textl; in this volume, the annotation serves as a wonderful supplemental guide to the text. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.
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This is a very exhaustive presentation of the Rime. One heads up, though . . . this edition is not uniform in appearance and size with the other books in the "Annotated" series (i.e. The Annotated Alice, the Annotated Huckleberry Finn). It is larger and has a glossy cover.
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Best rendition of the Mariner ever seen. Art work is exceptional and the annotations are excellent. Annotated version is unique, the Mariner being subject to wide interpertations.
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The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works (1834) published in his lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Sibylline Leaves, The Road, Table Talk, Wandering Jew, Miss Bodkin, Kenneth Burke, Kubla Khan, Middle Ages, New York, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, David Hartley, Robert Penn Warren, Biographia Literaria, Cape Horn, Earl Leslie Griggs, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Philosophy of Literary Form, Publications of the Modern Language Association, William Vaughn Moody, Cape of Good Hope, George Whalley, John Livingston Lowes New!
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The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works (1834) published in his lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Sibylline Leaves, The Road, Table Talk, Wandering Jew, Miss Bodkin, Kenneth Burke, Kubla Khan, Middle Ages, New York, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, David Hartley, Robert Penn Warren, Biographia Literaria, Cape Horn, Earl Leslie Griggs, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Philosophy of Literary Form, Publications of the Modern Language Association, William Vaughn Moody, Cape of Good Hope, George Whalley, John Livingston Lowes New!
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- Ancient Mariner Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 56 pages
- Lyrical Ballads (First Editions) by William Wordsworth on 15 pages
- Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by William Wordsworth on 15 pages
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 15 pages
- Biographia Literaria by Taylor Samuel Coleridge on 5 pages
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- The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history by Susan Howe in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature by James B. Twitchell on page 148, and page 156
- In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations by Marianne Boruch in Back Matter
- The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks by Philip Nel in Back Matter
- Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher by Martin Gardner on page 127
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