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…

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..

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

Dore – Rime of the Ancient Mariner (detail)

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…

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

DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883) Illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1866 Engraving

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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

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

The Ancient Mariner at Watchet Harbour

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

On the high seas, ships had their own system of “law and order.”

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

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner