Rime of the ancient mariner art

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 Gustave Doré created these illustrations for a 1877 German edition The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor … Continue reading "Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustration from the Folio Society's deluxe edtion

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 Gustave Doré created these illustrations for a 1877 German edition The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor … Continue reading "Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. London, Zodiac Books, 1949

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Dore

Gustave Doré -The rime of the Ancient Mariner

Gustav Dore illustration for Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Page decorations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1899 edition.

Dore – Rime of the Ancient Mariner (detail)

The poem was most likely influenced by Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge too might have felt himself burdened by his talent, like having a ...

"The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" portfolio. Schanes and Schanes, 1981.

One of the themes in Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Sin and Redemption. After the Mariner commits the sin of shooting the Albatross, guilt begins to manifest in all kinds of super natural forms. The Albatross is a representative of nature, but means nothing to the Mariner. Nature quickly changes and began punishing him for killing the symbol of nature. He is then penalized by the rays of the sun and mocked by the sight of water that he could not drink. Afterward the Mariner begins realizing…

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is the epic poem, origin of the expressions "an albatross around one's neck" and "water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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