ancient mariner
Open main menu Search The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Language Watch Edit "Ancient Mariner" redirects here. For other uses, see Ancient Mariner (disambiguation) and Rime of the Ancient Mariner (disambiguation) . The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge , written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads . Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss . [1] Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads , it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature . [2] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1800 edition) Problems playing this file? See media help . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned f