THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Wydawca: Prometheus Books Opis produktu Coleridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or studied today. This annotated version by Martin Gardner will help to renew the appreciation and deepen the understanding of Coleridge's unjustly neglected masterpiece the poem is a biographical sketch of the great poet, which emphasizes those aspects of his many-sided life and personality that have the strongest bearing on the poem, especially on circumstances surrounding its composition. Both the 1798 and 1834 versions of the poem are presented, with notes on words, lines, and stanzas that Coleridge later excised. Following the poem, Gardner summarizes major critical attitudes toward the ballad, discusses possible higher levels of meaning, and closes with questions concerning the poem's much-debated moral artists have illustrated the Rime, but none as skillfully as Gustave Dore. He was far and away the most popular and prolific book illustrator of all time, and though his work has been out of fashion for some time, it is becoming harder and harder to dismiss him as a mere yeoman illustrator is your chance to read, or reread, Coleridge's classic Rime, to fully understand it, and to relish Dore's magnificent illustrations. Features: Annotated, Bibliography Specyfikacja SKU: PROE002058733 EAN: 9781591021254 Waga: 794 g Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Binding: Hardcover Pages: 210 Publication Year: 2003 BISAC Category 1: POE005020 BISAC Category 2: LIT000000 BISAC Category 3: POE014000