The ancient mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a famous narrative poem in seven parts by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was first published anonymously in September 1798 as The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in Lyrical Ballads. The author was not publicly identified until 1817 when The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was included in Sibylline Leaves, a collection of Coleridge's poems. The poem is written in the style of old English ballads using archaic language. It begins with an old sailor…

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

Ship in stormy sea, scene from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T. Coleridge, drawn by Gustave Dore, published by Harper und Brothers, New York, 1876

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

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by Gustave Dore (1832 - 1883). Published in 1876.

Dore – Rime of the Ancient Mariner (detail)

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S. T. Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

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

A Remnant Reprint… Editor’s Note: The following letter was penned by a captain in the U.S. Army who wishes to remain anonymous, but who has identified himself to me privately. I believe his humble and stirring letter is very important especially as Lent approaches. MJM I have recently been listening to a wonderful collection of sermons by a priest. He belonged to a fraternal order which I shall not name because, no doubt, some would not listen, but many will probably figure it out. I cannot…

Slaver, ecocide, plague ... the warnings of Coleridge’s poem resound down the ages. Now 40 actors, musicians and authors are performing in a daily mass-reading

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Andre COLLOT

Book cover design for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - created with linoprint and watercolour, and finished in photoshop.

Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14598373999) - Category:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikimedia Commons

Gustave Doré -The rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson with an Introduction by John Livingston Lowes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945.

I started a similar thread "The Magical World of Children's Illustration". In doing so I discovered many of the illustrators' themes crossed over into the adult realm of fine literature. Therefore I thought I would start this separate thread. I hope you will check out both. Some of the same artists will be featured in both threads, but with entirely different themes and subject matter. I often come across these marvelous and talented illustrators while expanding my own offline files and

Art by Lancelot Speed for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Andrew Lang's "The Blue Poetry Book." London: Longmans, Green, 1891 “The Blue Poetry Book” was Andrew Lang's first and only “colored” book of poetry. It collects nearly 150 poems by masters such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, Poe, Marlowe, Coleridge, Milton, Macaulay, among others. The poems are accompanied by 100 black and white illustrations by Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. And..