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id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%BA" title="Балада за Стария моряк – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Балада за Стария моряк" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADse%C5%88_o_star%C3%A9m_n%C3%A1mo%C5%99n%C3%ADkovi" title="Píseň o starém námořníkovi – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Píseň o starém námořníkovi" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97_%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B3%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D" title="Η μπαλάντα του γέρου ναυτικού – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Η μπαλάντα του γέρου ναυτικού" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinel_zaharraren_balada" title="Marinel zaharraren balada – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Marinel zaharraren balada" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Complainte_du_vieux_marin" title="La Complainte du vieux marin – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="La Complainte du vieux marin" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EC%88%98%EB%B6%80" title="노수부 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="노수부" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%91%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC_%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0" title="द राइम ऑफ़ द एन्शियंट मेरिनर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="द राइम ऑफ़ द एन्शियंट मेरिनर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballada_del_Vetule_Marinero" title="Ballada del Vetule Marinero – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Ballada del Vetule Marinero" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_ballata_del_vecchio_marinaio" title="La ballata del vecchio marinaio – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="La ballata del vecchio marinaio" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AE%E1%83%A3%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%96%E1%83%A6%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A6%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90" title="მოხუცი მეზღვაურის სიმღერა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მოხუცი მეზღვაურის სიმღერა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Песната на стариот морнар – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Песната на стариот морнар" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%93%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%8E%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%BC" title="ദ് റൈം ഓഫ് ദ് എൻഷ്യന്റ് മാരിനർ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ദ് റൈം ഓഫ് ദ് എൻഷ്യന്റ് മാരിനർ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A6_%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%AE_%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%8F%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%9F_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%B0" title="ਦ ਰਾਈਮ ਆਫ਼ ਦੀ ਏਨਸੀਐਂਟ ਮੇਰੀਨਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਦ ਰਾਈਮ ਆਫ਼ ਦੀ ਏਨਸੀਐਂਟ ਮੇਰੀਨਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rymy_o_starym_marynarzu_(poemat)" title="Rymy o starym marynarzu (poemat) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Rymy o starym marynarzu (poemat)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BE_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5" title="Сказание о старом мореходе – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сказание о старом мореходе" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BE_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83" title="Песма о старом морнару – Serbian" 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Ancient Mariner" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Mariner_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Ancient Mariner (disambiguation)">Ancient Mariner (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Rime of the Ancient Mariner (disambiguation)">Rime of the Ancient Mariner (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-style: background: #ededed;"><span class="summary">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rime+of+the+Ancient+Mariner&rft.author=%5B%5BSamuel+Taylor+Coleridge%5D%5D&rft.date=1798&rft.pub=J.+%26+A.+Arch&rft.place=%5B%5BKingdom+of+Great+Britain%7CGreat+Britain%5D%5D"></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="summary">by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg/220px-Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg/330px-Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg/440px-Dore-I_had_done_a_hellish_thing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="781" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the <a href="/wiki/Wood_engraving" title="Wood engraving">wood-engraved</a> illustrations by <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="Gustave Doré">Gustave Doré</a> of the poem.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original title</th><td class="infobox-data"><span lang="en">The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written</th><td class="infobox-data">1797–98</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First published in</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads" title="Lyrical Ballads">Lyrical Ballads</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data location"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">fate, doom, seafaring, superstition</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Form</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">Ballad</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metre_(poetry)" title="Metre (poetry)">Meter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iambic_tetrameter" title="Iambic tetrameter">iambic tetrameter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iambic_trimeter" title="Iambic trimeter">iambic trimeter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Rhyme_scheme" title="Rhyme scheme">Rhyme scheme</a></th><td class="infobox-data">abcb</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data">J. & A. Arch</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication date</th><td class="infobox-data">1798</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">print</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Lines</th><td class="infobox-data">625</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;"><b>Full text</b></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/16px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/32px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" class="extiw" title="wikisource:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</b></i> (originally <i><b>The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere</b></i>), written by English poet <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of <i><a href="/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads" title="Lyrical Ballads">Lyrical Ballads</a></i>, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">gloss</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Rime_ancient_mariner_coleridge_mlc.ogg" title="File:Rime ancient mariner coleridge mlc.ogg"><i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i> (1798 edition)</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="1790" data-mwtitle="Rime_ancient_mariner_coleridge_mlc.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Rime_ancient_mariner_coleridge_mlc.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/Rime_ancient_mariner_coleridge_mlc.ogg/Rime_ancient_mariner_coleridge_mlc.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"></div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>The poem tells of the mariner stopping a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony so that the mariner can share his story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from amusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style; Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem. </p><p>The <i>Rime</i> is the Taylor's longest major poem.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources.">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British <a href="/wiki/Romantic_literature" title="Romantic literature">Romantic literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg/220px-Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg/330px-Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg/440px-Frontispiece_by_William_Strang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1790" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Book_frontispiece" title="Book frontispiece">Frontispiece</a> by <a href="/wiki/William_Strang" title="William Strang">William Strang</a> for a 1903 <a href="/wiki/Edition_(book)" title="Edition (book)">edition</a> of Coleridge's poem.</figcaption></figure> <p>The poem begins with an old grey-bearded sailor, the Mariner, stopping a guest at a wedding ceremony to tell him a story of a sailing voyage he took long ago. The Wedding-Guest is at first reluctant to listen, as the ceremony is about to begin, but the mariner's glittering eye captivates him. </p><p>The mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south by a storm and eventually reaches the icy waters of the <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctic</a>. An <a href="/wiki/Albatross" title="Albatross">albatross</a> appears and leads the ship out of the ice jam where it is stuck, but even as the albatross is fed and praised by the ship's crew, the mariner shoots the bird: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>[...] With my cross-bow<br /> I shot the <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style><span class="smallcaps">Albatross</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 81–82</cite></div></blockquote> <p>The crew is angry with the mariner, believing the albatross brought the south wind that led them out of the Antarctic. However, the sailors change their minds when the weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,<br /> That bring the fog and mist.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 101–102</cite></div></blockquote> <p>They soon find that they made a grave mistake in supporting this crime, as it arouses the wrath of spirits who then pursue the ship "from the land of mist and snow"; the south wind that had initially blown them north now sends the ship into uncharted waters near the equator, where it is <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/becalmed" class="extiw" title="wikt:becalmed">becalmed</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Day after day, day after day,<br /> We stuck, nor breath nor motion;<br /> As idle as a painted ship<br /> Upon a painted ocean.<br /> <br /> Water, water, every where,<br /> And all the boards did shrink;<br /> Water, water, every where,<br /> Nor any drop to drink.<br /> <br /> The very deep did rot: Oh Christ!<br /> That ever this should be!<br /> Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs<br /> Upon the slimy sea.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 115–126</cite></div></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg/220px-Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg/330px-Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg/440px-Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3128" /></a><figcaption>Engraving by <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="Gustave Doré">Gustave Doré</a> for an 1876 edition of the poem. <i>The Albatross</i> depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg/250px-The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg/375px-The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg/500px-The_Albatross_about_my_Neck_was_Hung_by_William_Strang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="484" /></a><figcaption>"The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by <a href="/wiki/William_Strang" title="William Strang">William Strang</a>, published 1896</figcaption></figure> <p>The sailors change their minds again and blame the mariner for the torment of their thirst. In anger, the crew forces the mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of regret: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Ah! well a-day! what evil looks<br /> Had I from old and young!<br /> Instead of the cross, the Albatross<br /> About my neck was hung.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 139–142</cite></div></blockquote> <p>After a "weary time", the ship encounters a ghostly hulk. On board are <a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a> (a skeleton) and the "Night-mare Life-in-Death", a deathly pale woman, who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Four times fifty living men,<br /> (And I heard nor sigh nor groan)<br /> With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,<br /> They dropped down one by one.<br /> <br /> The souls did from their bodies fly,—<br /> They fled to bliss or woe!<br /> And every soul, it passed me by,<br /> Like the whizz of my cross-bow!<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 216–223</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Eventually, this stage of the mariner's curse is lifted after he begins to appreciate the many sea creatures swimming in the water. Despite his cursing them as "slimy things" earlier in the poem, he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them ("A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware"). As he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated. It then starts to rain, and the bodies of the crew, possessed by good spirits, rise again and help steer the ship. In a trance, the mariner hears two spirits discussing his voyage and penance, and learns that the ship is being powered supernaturally: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>The air is cut away before,<br /> And closes from behind.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 424–425</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Finally the mariner wakes from his trance and comes in sight of his homeland, but is initially uncertain as to whether or not he is hallucinating: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed<br /> The light-house top I see?<br /> Is this the hill? is this the kirk?<br /> Is this mine own countree?<br /> <br /> We drifted o'er the harbour-bar,<br /> And I with sobs did pray—<br /> O let me be awake, my God!<br /> Or let me sleep alway.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 464–471</cite></div></blockquote> <p>The rotten remains of the ship sink in a whirlpool, leaving only the mariner behind. A <a href="/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit">hermit</a> on the mainland who has spotted the approaching ship comes to meet it in a boat, rowed by a pilot and his boy. When they pull the mariner from the water, they think he is dead, but when he opens his mouth, the pilot shrieks with fright. The hermit prays, and the mariner picks up the oars to row. The pilot's boy laughs, thinking the mariner is the devil, and cries, "The Devil knows how to row". Back on land, the mariner is compelled by "a woful agony" to tell the hermit his story. </p><p>As penance for shooting the albatross, the mariner, driven by the agony of his guilt, is now forced to wander the earth, telling his story over and over, and teaching a lesson to those he meets: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>He prayeth best, who loveth best<br /> All things both great and small;<br /> For the dear God who loveth us,<br /> He made and loveth all.<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 614–617</cite></div></blockquote> <p>After finishing his story, the mariner leaves, and the wedding-guest returns home, waking the next morning "a sadder and a wiser man". </p><p>The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of <i>Lyrical Ballads</i>, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inspiration_for_the_poem">Inspiration for the poem</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Inspiration for the poem"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The poem may have been inspired by <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a>'s second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, <a href="/wiki/William_Wales_(astronomer)" title="William Wales (astronomer)">William Wales</a>, was the astronomer on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(1771)" title="HMS Resolution (1771)">Cook's flagship</a> and had a strong relationship with Cook. On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the <a href="/wiki/Antarctic_Circle" title="Antarctic Circle">Antarctic Circle</a> to determine whether the fabled great southern continent <a href="/wiki/Terra_Australis" title="Terra Australis">Terra Australis</a> existed.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critics have also suggested that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_James_(sea_captain)" title="Thomas James (sea captain)">Thomas James</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Arctic" title="Arctic">Arctic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">Wordsworth</a>, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Wordsworth" title="Dorothy Wordsworth">Dorothy</a> were on a walking tour through the <a href="/wiki/Quantock_Hills" title="Quantock Hills">Quantock Hills</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Keach_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keach-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading,<sup id="cite_ref-Shelvocke-1726_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shelvocke-1726-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that described a <a href="/wiki/Privateering" class="mw-redirect" title="Privateering">privateering</a> voyage in 1719 during which a melancholy sailor, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Hatley" title="Simon Hatley">Simon Hatley</a>, shot a black <a href="/wiki/Albatross" title="Albatross">albatross</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg/320px-The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="461" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg/480px-The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg/640px-The_Ancient_Mariner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5120117.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2279" data-file-height="3283" /></a><figcaption>Commemorative statue at <a href="/wiki/Watchet" title="Watchet">Watchet</a>, Somerset: the albatross hangs on a rope looped around the ancient mariner's neck. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>"Ah! well a-day! what evil looks<br /> Had I from old and young!<br /> Instead of the cross, the Albatross<br /> About my neck was hung."<sup id="cite_ref-STC_1869_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC_1869-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Location: lines 139–142">: lines 139–142 </span></sup> </p> </div></blockquote></figcaption></figure> <p>As they discussed Shelvocke's book, Wordsworth proffered the following developmental critique to Coleridge, which importantly contains a reference to <a href="/wiki/Tutelary_spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="Tutelary spirit">tutelary spirits</a>: "Suppose you represent him as having killed one of these birds on entering the south sea, and the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime."<sup id="cite_ref-Keach_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keach-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time the trio finished their walk, the poem had taken shape. </p><p>Bernard Martin argues in <i>The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative</i> that Coleridge was also influenced by the life of Anglican clergyman <a href="/wiki/John_Newton" title="John Newton">John Newton</a>, who had a <a href="/wiki/Near-death_experience" title="Near-death experience">near-death experience</a> aboard a <a href="/wiki/Slave_ship" title="Slave ship">slave ship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the <a href="/wiki/Wandering_Jew" title="Wandering Jew">Wandering Jew</a>, who was forced to wander the earth until <a href="/wiki/Judgement_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Judgement Day">Judgement Day</a> for a terrible crime, found in Charles Maturin's <i><a href="/wiki/Melmoth_the_Wanderer" title="Melmoth the Wanderer">Melmoth the Wanderer</a></i>, M. G. Lewis' <i><a href="/wiki/The_Monk" title="The Monk">The Monk</a></i> (a 1796 novel Coleridge reviewed), and the legend of the <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Dutchman" title="Flying Dutchman">Flying Dutchman</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is argued that the harbour at <a href="/wiki/Watchet" title="Watchet">Watchet</a> in Somerset was the primary inspiration for the poem, although some time before, John Cruikshank, a local acquaintance of Coleridge's, had related a dream about a skeleton ship crewed by spectral sailors.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2003, a commemorative statue, by Alan B. Herriot of <a href="/wiki/Penicuik" title="Penicuik">Penicuik</a>, Scotland, was unveiled at Watchet harbour.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coleridge's_comments"><span id="Coleridge.27s_comments"></span>Coleridge's comments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Coleridge's comments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i>Biographia Literaria</i>, Coleridge wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the <i>Lyrical Ballads</i>; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing <a href="/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief" title="Suspension of disbelief">suspension of disbelief</a> for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ... With this view I wrote the <i>Ancient Mariner</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In <i>Table Talk</i>, Coleridge wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mrs. Barbauld once told me that she admired <i>The Ancient Mariner</i> very much, but that there were two faults in it – it was improbable, and had no moral. As for the probability, I owned that that might admit some question; but as to the want of a moral, I told her that in my own judgement the poem had too much; and that the only, or chief fault, if I might say so, was the obtrusion of the moral sentiment so openly on the reader as a principle or cause of action in a work of such pure imagination. It ought to have had no more moral than the <i><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Nights" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabian Nights">Arabian Nights</a></i>' tale of the merchant's sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well, and throwing the shells aside, and lo! a genie starts up, and says he must kill the aforesaid merchant, because one of the date shells had, it seems, put out the eye of the genie's son.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wordsworth's_comments"><span id="Wordsworth.27s_comments"></span>Wordsworth's comments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Wordsworth's comments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wordsworth wrote to Joseph Cottle in 1799: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>From what I can gather it seems that the Ancient Mariner has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on. If the volume should come to a second Edition I would put in its place some little things which would be more likely to suit the common taste.</p></blockquote> <p>However, when <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> was reprinted, Wordsworth included it despite Coleridge's objections, writing: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Poem of my Friend has indeed great defects; first, that the principal person has no distinct character, either in his profession of Mariner, or as a human being who having been long under the control of supernatural impressions might be supposed himself to partake of something supernatural; secondly, that he does not act, but is continually acted upon; thirdly, that the events having no necessary connection do not produce each other; and lastly, that the imagery is somewhat too laboriously accumulated. Yet the Poem contains many delicate touches of passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity of language; and the versification, though the metre is itself unfit for long poems, is harmonious and artfully varied, exhibiting the utmost powers of that metre, and every variety of which it is capable. It therefore appeared to me that these several merits (the first of which, namely that of the passion, is of the highest kind) gave to the Poem a value which is not often possessed by better Poems.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_criticisms">Early criticisms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early criticisms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dore_coleridge.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Dore_coleridge.png/220px-Dore_coleridge.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Dore_coleridge.png/330px-Dore_coleridge.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Dore_coleridge.png/440px-Dore_coleridge.png 2x" data-file-width="644" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Illustration by <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="Gustave Doré">Gustave Doré</a>, 1878</figcaption></figure> <p>Upon its release, the poem was criticized for being obscure and difficult to read. The use of archaic spelling of words was seen as not in keeping with Wordsworth's claims of using common language. Criticism was renewed again in 1815–1816, when Coleridge added marginal notes to the poem that were also written in an archaic style. These notes or <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">glosses</a>, placed next to the text of the poem, ostensibly interpret the verses much like marginal notes found in the Bible. There were many opinions on why Coleridge inserted the gloss.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lamb_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Lamb (writer)">Charles Lamb</a>, who had deeply admired the original for its attention to "Human Feeling", claimed that the gloss distanced the audience from the narrative, weakening the poem's effects. The entire poem was first published in the collection of <i><a href="/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads" title="Lyrical Ballads">Lyrical Ballads</a></i>. Another version of the poem was published in the 1817 collection entitled <i>Sibylline Leaves</i> (see <a href="/wiki/1817_in_poetry" title="1817 in poetry">1817 in poetry</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretations">Interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On a surface level the poem explores a violation of nature and the resulting psychological effects on the mariner and on all those who hear him. According to <a href="/wiki/Jerome_McGann" title="Jerome McGann">Jerome McGann</a> the poem is like a salvation story. The poem's structure is multi-layered text based on Coleridge's interest in <a href="/wiki/Higher_criticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher criticism">higher criticism</a>. "Like the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> or any great historical product, the <i>Rime</i> is a work of trans-historical rather than so-called universal significance. This verbal distinction is important because it calls attention to a real one. Like The Divine Comedy or any other poem, the <i>Rime</i> is not valued or used always or everywhere or by everyone in the same way or for the same reasons."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whalley (1947)<sup id="cite_ref-Whalley-1947_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whalley-1947-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself, comparing the mariner's loneliness with Coleridge's own feelings of loneliness expressed in his letters and journals.<sup id="cite_ref-Whalley-1947_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whalley-1947-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Sexual_Personae:_Art_and_Decadence_from_Nefertiti_to_Emily_Dickinson" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson">Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson</a></i> (1990), <a href="/wiki/Camille_Paglia" title="Camille Paglia">Camille Paglia</a> writes that the Bridegroom, Wedding-Guest and Mariner all represent aspects of Coleridge: "The Bridegroom is a masculine persona" that is "integrated with society", and that the Wedding-Guest is an adolescent seeking "sexual fulfilment and collective joy", that must merge with the Bridegroom but is unable to because of the appearance of a <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">spectre</a>-self, a "male heroine" who "luxuriates in passive suffering".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versions_of_the_poem">Versions of the poem</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Versions of the poem"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coleridge often made changes to his poems and <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i> was no exception – he produced at least eighteen different versions over the years.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  128–130">(pp 128–130)</span></sup> He regarded revision as an essential part of creating poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  138">(p 138)</span></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads_(1798)/The_Rime_of_the_Ancyent_Marinere" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere">first published version</a> of the poem was in <i><a href="/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads" title="Lyrical Ballads">Lyrical Ballads</a></i> in 1798. The <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads_(1800)/Volume_1/The_Ancient_Mariner" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Lyrical Ballads (1800)/Volume 1/The Ancient Mariner">second edition of this anthology in 1800</a> included a revised text, requested by Coleridge, in which some of the language and many of the archaic spellings were modernised. He also reduced the title to <i>The Ancient Mariner</i> but for later versions the longer title was restored. The 1802 and 1805 editions of <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> had minor textual changes. In 1817 <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sibylline_Leaves_(Coleridge)/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/The Rime of the Ancient Mariner">Coleridge's <i>Sibylline Leaves</i> anthology</a> included a new version with an extensive marginal <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">gloss</a>, written by the poet. The last version he produced was in 1834.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  127, 130, 134">(pp 127, 130, 134)</span></sup> </p><p>Traditionally literary critics regarded each revision of a text by an author as producing a more authoritative version and Coleridge published somewhat revised versions of the poem in his <i>Poetical Works</i> anthology editions of 1828, 1829, and lastly in 1834—the year of his death. More recently scholars look to the earliest version, even in manuscript, as the most authoritative but for this poem no manuscript is <a href="/wiki/Extant_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Extant literature">extant</a>. Hence the editors of the edition of <i>Collected Poems</i> published in 1972 used the 1798 version but made their own modernisation of the spelling and they added some passages taken from later editions.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  128–129, 134">(pp 128–129, 134)</span></sup> </p><p>The 1817 edition, the one most used today and the first to be published under Coleridge's own name rather than anonymously, added a new Latin epigraph but the major change was the addition of the gloss that has a considerable effect on the way the poem reads.<sup id="cite_ref-p1912_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p1912-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  186">(p 186)</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  130, 134">(pp 130, 134)</span></sup> Coleridge's grandson <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hartley_Coleridge" title="Ernest Hartley Coleridge">E.H. Coleridge</a> produced a detailed study of the published versions of the poem.<sup id="cite_ref-p1912_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p1912-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over all, Coleridge's revisions resulted in the poem losing thirty-nine lines and an introductory prose "Argument", and gaining fifty-eight glosses and a Latin epigraph.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  134">(p 134)</span></sup> </p><p>In general the anthologies included printed lists of <i><a href="/wiki/Erratum" title="Erratum">errata</a></i> and, in the case of the particularly lengthy list in <i>Sibylline Leaves</i>, the list was included at the beginning of the volume. Such changes were often editorial rather than merely correcting errors.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  131, 139">(pp 131, 139)</span></sup> Coleridge also made handwritten changes in printed volumes of his work, particularly when he presented them as gifts to friends.<sup id="cite_ref-stillinger_22-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillinger-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  134, 139">(pp 134, 139)</span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner_in_popular_culture" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in popular culture">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in popular culture</a></div> <p>In addition to being referred to in several other notable works, due to the popularity of the poem, the phrase <i>"albatross around one's neck"</i> has become an English-language idiom referring to "a heavy burden of guilt that becomes an obstacle to success".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The phrase <i>"Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink"</i> has appeared widely in popular culture, but usually given in a more natural modern phrasing as "Water, water, everywhere / <i>But not a</i> drop to drink"; some such appearances have, in turn, played on the frequency with which these lines are misquoted.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)" title="Albatross (metaphor)">Albatross (metaphor)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"On 26 January 1774 he crossed into the Antarctic Circle for the third time (having done so a second time the previous month) and four days later, at 71°10' S, 106°54' W, achieved his farthest south."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"We all observed, that we had not the sight of one fish of any kind, since we were come to the Southward of the <a href="/wiki/Le_Maire_Strait" title="Le Maire Strait">straits of le Mair</a>, nor one sea-bird, except a disconsolate black Albatross, who accompanied us for several days ... till Hattley, (my second Captain) observing, in one of his melancholy fits, that this bird was always hovering near us, imagin'd, from his colour, that it might be some ill omen ... He, after some fruitless attempts, at length, shot the Albatross, not doubting we should have a fair wind after it."<sup id="cite_ref-Shelvocke-1726_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shelvocke-1726-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 72–73">: 72–73 </span></sup> </span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/revised-version-of-the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-published-in-sibylline-leaves">"Revised version of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published in Sibylline Leaves"</a>. <i>The British Library</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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