1863 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Illustrated

  

Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Art-Union of London, 1863, 12pp+20 plates, cloth, 18 x 12.5, 4to. Wear, scuffing, and staining to boards.

Boards are adhered to binding via fragile cording. Title in gilt on front board. Tearing to spine with exposed binding at tail. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Includes 20 illustrated plates at rear of textblock.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss.

It is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding Guest's reaction turns from amusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style; Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (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 a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical works were highly influential, especially in relation to William Shakespeare, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures.