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By J. C. C. Mays (auth.)
This is the 1st book-length research to learn the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's personal specific feel of the note. Coleridge's advanced courting with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its starting place as a joint undertaking with Wordsworth. J. C. C. Mays strains the adjustments within the a number of types released in Coleridge's lifetime and indicates how Wordsworth's stricken response to the poem inspired its next interpretation. this is often additionally the 1st booklet to situate the "Mariner" within the context of everything of Coleridge's prose and verse, now on hand within the Bollingen gathered version and Notebooks; that's, not just with regards to different poems like "The Ballad of the darkish Ladiè" and "Alice du Clós," but additionally to principles in his literary feedback (especially Biographia Literaria), philosophy, and theology. utilizing a mix of shut studying and huge ancient concerns, reception thought, and booklet heritage, Mays surveys the poem's carrying on with existence in illustrated variations and academic textbooks; its passage during the vicissitudes of recent feedback and important conception; and, in a last bankruptcy, its stunning affinities with a few experimental poems of the current time.
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Having the whole text set in italic is a particularly frequent misfortune to befall the “Mariner”: is it because of a misguided tribute to the out-of-the-ordinary? A half-way lunge towards gothic script? At the same time, there are a few printed versions that deliver the text in ways for which I for one feel deeply grateful. Bruce Rogers (for Oxford University Press, 1930) sets a classic standard but is not alone. With reference to the “Coleridgean” argument about illustration sketched here, the way the text reads on the page deserves as much care and attention as the interpolation of images by other hands.
Paradoxically, in such a context, under such a spell, a conventional moral along the lines of “be kind to animals” has a natural place. No matter that the penance exceeds the unwitting crime, no matter that the moral is trite. ” The child in every reader expects— needs—to find a comforting crumb of the ultra-mundane. Separate things in the poem are immediately recognisable and understood, yet they hang together in a different—one might say privileged— story-tale way. So there are feelings and situations to which anyone WHAT DOES THE POEM DO?
I am inclined to read the foreshadowing of the ending in Part V in relation to the words “fear” and “dread” that enter the poem in the surrounding context. 16 The temptation to remember the narrative as a collection of scenes is overwhelming but, more important, they are sustained in their place by the oxygen of emotion; attempts to realise the scenes as pictorial illustrations vary widely, and most of them fail. Everything that came into it—the memories of voyages documented by Lowes, the echoes of recondite sources recorded by Beer—came this way.