Samuel Taylor Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Modern Critical Interpretations) - Hardcover

Harold Bloom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877547343 ISBN 13: 9780877547341

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 1986

Synopsis

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the most famous of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daemonic poems. An eerily compelling ballad with powerful metaphysical overtones, the Mariner's hypnotic tale continues to fascinate readers and critics.

The title, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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From the Back Cover:

Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Doré with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's fantastic range of atmosphere to the limits of its possibilities. 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 perfection, in their original size. The illustrations and the text of the poem appear on facing pages, so that the imaginative kinship of Doré and Coleridge is delightfully evident on every page: the illustrations capture all the moods of the poem in their full intensity, bringing the images evoked by the words into clear visual focus.
Unabridged and slightly rearranged republication of the 1878 American edition. Text slightly amended to conform to the authoritative 1834 edition of the poem.See every Dover book in print atwww.doverpublications.com

From the Inside Flap:

Coleridge's own commentary on the fateful story of the bright-eyed ancient mariner, written some years later at a time of renewed religious feeling, is printed alongside the poem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0877547343
• ISBN 13: 9780877547341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128