![]() ![]() ![]() This volume is often seen as the publication that marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.Ĭoleridge is also famous for his lifelong battle with laudanum, a tincture of opium and a potent narcotic. 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 Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and Poetic Technique ![]()
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