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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge
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Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' has never been out of print. This edition comes with the renowned Dore illustrations and an introduction from English literature scholar Anne Rooney."
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Becker
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A treasure found at a used book fair. Every turn of the page includes a beautiful full page sketch to follow the poem. ⚓️

Bookwomble Nice find 😊 Can I ask who the illustrator is? 6mo
Becker @Bookwomble The illustrator is Gustave Dore. 6mo
Bookwomble Ah, I thought it looked like Doré, but I don't think my edition with his illustrations has this image. I'll have to check! Thank you 😊 6mo
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Lindy
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I‘ve loved this classic poem since I was a kid and lines often come back to me: “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” My neighbour recently lent me her copy that reproduces Gustave Doré‘s lithographs in their original size and it‘s a treat. The drama and pathos are emphasized by the illustrations. #poetrymonth

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Lindy
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The moving Moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside—

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OutAndAbout
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!

#boat
#poetrymatters

Thanks for the #boat poems this morning. I‘m currently worrying while watching the lake around my boat freeze solid.

Crazeedi Does the lake freeze normally? Or are you in the south where the vortex is dipping 4y
OutAndAbout @Crazeedi hasn‘t frozen like this in at least the six years we‘ve been here. We are in Missouri where it‘s currently -4 F with a real feel of -14. 4y
Crazeedi @OutAndAbout oh my! We avoided the deep freeze in western PA, but we're getting vg the sax now today and tomorrow. You all have had sub zero for over a week now! Its nuts! 4y
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Crazeedi Snow, dang 4y
OutAndAbout @Crazeedi it definitely is nuts. Ready for the above average temps we are forecast to get by April! 4y
IndoorDame -4 F Yikes! 🥶Stay inside. By a fire, reading if at all possible🔥📚💜 4y
TheSpineView Your poor boat! Stay warm!❤🔥 4y
Eggs ❤️🥶👌🏼❄️ 4y
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DebinHawaii
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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#ChristmasQuotes #ice

“The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!”

EadieB Love this! 4y
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Bookwomble
Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge
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As it's STC's birthday today, and sticking with a nautical theme...

Heideschrampf What a lovely edition 4y
Bookwomble @Heideschrampf It *is* a lovely edition 😊 4y
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Bookwomble
Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge
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@Palimpsest And, here's the other two Doré's. He was excellent at picking works to match his style of illustration 😊

vivastory I 💙Doré 5y
Bookwomble @vivastory Me, too 😊 I first remember seeing his illustrations for The Divine Comedy at primary school, which obviously mage an impression on me. I particularly remember the image of harpies perched on trees in the dark woods as Danté passes by. 5y
Palimpsest Wow, beautiful thanks for sharing. I unfortunately wasn‘t familiar until several years ago, but I was still very impressed. 5y
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Bookwomble @Palimpsest I feel I need to say that I wasn't reading the Divine Comedy in primary school (and I still haven't, although it's tsundoku), but I do remember looking at a book with Doré's illustrations of the poem. I'd like to think I was a child prodigy, but I wasn't 😄 5y
Palimpsest @Bookwomble I read The Divine Comedy last year, but even with the extensive note section I found it a struggle as a lot of it is about Italian politics and people who were his contemporaries. It would have been beneficial for me to have a companion book or class setting for it, but the Purgatorio was pretty great and the most accessible in my opinion. Trying to read at least one of the big classics per year. The year before I read The Iliad. 5y
Palimpsest I‘m not artistic myself, but yes from early on loved beautiful illustrations and always find myself gravitating towards books with them. 😀 5y
Palimpsest So I guess “big classics” sounds silly, but I meant Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and this year I want to read Ovid Metamorphosis. I studied English literature in college at a small school and my complaint was we studied all these books that were influenced by great literature, but never studied the actual source material, apart from a Chaucer and Shakespeare class, so I‘m trying to fill those gaps now. Not that you wanted to know all that but, yeah. 5y
Bookwomble @Palimpsest Big Classics is a perfect description! And what could be more interesting than to learn about somebody's relationship with books? 😊 I've got a big format copy of The Divine Comedy illustrated by Blake 😍, my enthusiasm to read which was dampened somewhat when discovering it's an abridged version 😕 My son read the whole poem last year and he enjoyed it. 5y
Palimpsest @Bookwomble I love Blake too. I‘ve not seen that version. Sounds amazing, but I understand the abridged version being a deterrent. I accidentally bought an abridged version of Seneca letters and so I haven‘t read it. Very cool that your son read it! I wished I had read a lot of books earlier than I have, but perhaps some books were just waiting for my enthusiasm for them to grow as I age. 😁 5y
Bookwomble @Palimpsest I'm the same about wishing I'd read certain books already, or that I'd read others sooner, but then I wouldn't have read the books I actually have, so whatchagunnado? 🤷🏻‍♂️ 5y
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Charityann
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Always liked this poem, so kind of cool to listen to on audio. 😊📚🎧 #jumpstart2020 @Clwojick @Lizpixie

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i.z.booknook
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And this complete with all my old annotations 😂

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i.z.booknook
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This is simply an enjoyable read. Well-written, interesting, beautiful and symbolic.

Tanisha_A I remember reading and enjoying The Rime of the Ancient Mariner back in grade 10. 😊 6y
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Bookwomble
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And is that Woman all her crew?
Is that a Death? and are there two?
Is Death that woman's mate?

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks men's blood with cold.

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Bookwomble
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A review of illustrations: Where Doré beautifully catches the gothic mood of Coleridge's verse, Peake catches the macabre, tenebrous quality of the Mariner's feverish nightmare. In her introduction, Warner tells of how Peake's commissioning editor found his illustration of the Night-mare Life-in-Death too horrifying for its '40s British readership and her portrait was dropped from the first edition, though much reprinted since and included here.

Tiyas7 This is one of the best poems I have ever read!! One of my personal favourites!!! 6y
Bookwomble @Tiyas7 Mine, too 😊 6y
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thebluestocking
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in AP English. It was the first time I could see clearly all the symbols and metaphors a story could contain. #favoriteschoolread #riotgrams

APLitlife ❤️ROTAM! Next check out Iron Maiden‘s version of it. 7y
thebluestocking @APLitlife What?!? I‘m going to go check that out right now! (edited) 7y
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JessNevertheless
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Water, #water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink”

Love my old, tiny, pocket edition ❤️📕
#noteworthynovember

Lcsmcat Lovely edition! 7y
JessNevertheless Thank you @Lcsmcat! I love this little edition and I‘m hoping to expand my collection of The Little Leather Library! 7y
TricksyTails I love that edition! 7y
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Lynnsoprano
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our tour in England took us to Watchet, a beautiful village along the Bristol Channel coast. This is the statue of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge spent a lot of time in this area, we were told.

quirkyreader Albatross! 7y
Cortg Stunning! 7y
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Malisa
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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My favorite poem by Coleridge! This poem tells the story of a mariner that goes through a curse for killing an albatross, and he learns a valuable lesson in the end. Definitely recommend 👍

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BraveNewBooks
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A very cool marked-up copy of Coleridge that I found in a Parisian bookstore today. 🗼🗼📚📚 Based on the inscription, someone did all this work back in the 1940s.

#usedbookstore #usedbooks #poetry

RanaElizabeth Whoa, that's a lot of mark-up. 8y
BraveNewBooks @RanaElizabeth right? And so carefully done. It's practically art. 8y
Joybishoptx Oh wow. That's amazing 8y
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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Here is the greatest read of my life. I was in highschool studying Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, when I had the opportunity to study this wonderful poem, which sheds some light on the work by Mary Shelley (she drew on Coleridge a lot).
#LitsyRiotLive

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GoneFishing
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

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GoneFishing
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

stargazerblue49 Love that one! 💦 8y
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Poetryfreak38
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I love this edition!!!! Such great illustrations!!

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BookwormHistory
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Revised) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Hello, sexy"

acg That lettering 😍 8y
E.H.Kern Iron Maiden! 🎸 8y
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BookwormHistory @E.H.Kern Hell yes!?I also love Nightwish's "The Islander", always reminds me of the poem 8y
Sue Beautiful!! 8y
jeff That cover! 8y
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