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== Origins == | == Origins == | ||
The poem was conceived by Coleridge and [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]] in the course of a walk along the Quantock hills on 13 November 1797, in the expectation that the New Monthly Magazine would pay £5 for it. According to an account by Wordsworth dictated in his old age, the basic outline was Coleridge's, but Wordsworth contributed the idea that the crime committed by the Mariner should be the shooting of the albatross. This was based on an incident in Shelvocke's ''Voyage Round the World'', published in 1726. Coleridge was the unquestioned author, but Wordsworth said that he contributed a couple of lines, and Coleridge attributed a different pair of lines to him. On 23 March 1798 [[Dorothy Wordsworth]] recorded in her journal that Coleridge brought his ballad completed. | The poem was conceived by Coleridge and [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]] in the course of a walk along the Quantock hills on 13 November 1797, in the expectation that the New Monthly Magazine would pay £5 for it. According to an account by Wordsworth dictated in his old age, the basic outline was Coleridge's, but Wordsworth contributed the idea that the crime committed by the Mariner should be the shooting of the albatross. This was based on an incident in Shelvocke's ''Voyage Round the World'', published in 1726. Coleridge was the unquestioned author, but Wordsworth said that he contributed a couple of lines, and Coleridge attributed a different pair of lines to him. On 23 March 1798 [[Dorothy Wordsworth]] recorded in her journal that Coleridge brought his ballad completed. It was not offered to the New Monthly Magazine but appeared in ''Lyrical Ballads'' under the title of ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere''. | ||
== The narrative == | == The narrative == | ||
Revision as of 17:09, 27 February 2015
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a long narrative poem in ballad form by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was 658 lines in its original version
Origins
The poem was conceived by Coleridge and Wordsworth in the course of a walk along the Quantock hills on 13 November 1797, in the expectation that the New Monthly Magazine would pay £5 for it. According to an account by Wordsworth dictated in his old age, the basic outline was Coleridge's, but Wordsworth contributed the idea that the crime committed by the Mariner should be the shooting of the albatross. This was based on an incident in Shelvocke's Voyage Round the World, published in 1726. Coleridge was the unquestioned author, but Wordsworth said that he contributed a couple of lines, and Coleridge attributed a different pair of lines to him. On 23 March 1798 Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her journal that Coleridge brought his ballad completed. It was not offered to the New Monthly Magazine but appeared in Lyrical Ballads under the title of The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.