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If the volume should come to a second Edition I would put in its place some little things which would be more likely to suit the common taste. His close friend and collaborator, William Wordsworth, in a letter to Joseph Cottle in 1799, wrote, in relation to Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, first published in 1798 in which The Rime first appeared:įrom what I can gather it seems that the Ancient Mariner has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on. And both Beethoven’s 9th and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner were considered by some of their contemporaries as incomprehensible, as works of madness. Like Beethoven, Coleridge believed that art was not about charting landscapes, or happenings, or the natural world in its seasons, but about the interrelationship between the external world and human consciousness. Coleridge was one of the key founders of the Romantic tradition of English poetry and he, like his contemporaries was fascinated by the relationship between poetry and the other arts, including music. We’ve been listening to Beethoven’s ninth symphony. The shipmates, in their sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner : in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird round his neck.‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and Poetic Technique.And every tongue, through utter drought,.They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. A Spirit had followed them one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels concerning whom the lear­ned Jew, Josephus, and the Plato­nic Constantinopoli­tan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted.And the Albatross begins to be avenged.Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,.The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,.

The fair breeze continues the ship enters the Pacific Ocean, and sails northward, even till it reaches the Line.'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,.Then all averred, I had killed the bird.But when the fog cleared off, they justify the same, and thus make themselves accomplices in the crime.Ah wretch ! said they, the bird to slay,.