The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486223051 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 77 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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A bonus track features Mason's animated reading of The Hunting of the Snark, an eight-canto poem by Lewis Carroll. Like the ocean surrounding the Mariner's ship, his voice ebbs and flows with the imaginative poem's various heights. Mason's reading of Coleridge's 1796 epic poem is at once hypnotic and stirring. The Academy Award-nominated actor reads the chilling tale involving clashes with sea monsters, a boat swarming with zombies and a dice game with Death in an authoritative English accent. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly "It is an ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one of thee." Although these ominous lines perennially instill fear of final exams and ter
A senseless killing… John P. Jones III … and aren’t so many?Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived from 1772 to 1834. He was often in ill-health, both physical and mentally. And he was a drug addict. Out of his anguish came this beautiful poem, which I first read, as so many of us did, in a high school English anthology. And I think I passed the test! Regrettably, it has taken more than half a century for a re-read, and there should have been at least a couple other re-reads along the way. Praise be to Kindle. It now makes the selection of parti. "Fantastic collection at a fantastic price" according to Bertilak. I bought this for Christabel and I'm glad I finally got a chance to read it. I found it to be a bit racier than I expected! A quick (non-racy) excerpt to peak your interest:---------------------------------------Hush, beating heart of Christabel!Jesu, Maria, shield her well!She folded her arms beneath her cloak,And stole to the other side of the oak.What sees she there?---------------------------------------But of course The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the star of this show. It is loaded with familiar lines,. "great romantic" according to jackel88. I have always loved the poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", ever since having it as an assignment in high school, and was pleased to find this edition in the Kindle store.Coleridge was a big influence of the romantic period and I didn't know that he was also an influential literary critic of his time.This book is set up to present his works in chronological order and there is some nice background info to give you some further history of the man.He was one of the greats, so I don't think anyone should be di
Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. Text slightly amended to conform to the authoritative 1834 edition of the poem.. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the vast icy caverns of Antarctica, the hot equatorial sea swarming with monsters, all of the amazing visual elements that make Coleridge's masterpiece one of the most exciting and most memorable poems in the English language are unforgettably engraved in Doré's plates.This edition reproduces all of the plates to perfect