The Rime of the ancient mariner : a handbook /

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Other Authors: Gettmann, Royal A. (Royal Alfred), 1904-1996
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1961.
Series:Wadsworth guides to literary study.
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Table of Contents:
  • THE TEXTS
  • The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
  • ORIGINS AND INTENTION
  • The Objects originally proposed / Samuel Taylor Colleridge
  • An Earlier attempt at collaboration / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Horrible and the preternatural / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Planning the poem / WIlliam Wordsworth
  • Great Defects and delicate touches / William Wordsworth
  • A Reply to Wordsworth / Charles Lamb
  • A Dutch attempt at German sublimityi / Robert Southey
  • STRUCTURE
  • The Warp, the Shuttle, and the pattern / John Livingston Lowes
  • THEME
  • On original sin / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Reply to Mrs. Barbauld / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Moral / John Livingston Lowes
  • A Sham moral / Irving Babbitt
  • The Doctrine of association / Dorothy Waples
  • Guilt and isolation / D.W. Harding
  • The Albatross and the creative imigination / George Whalley
  • Coleridge and the supernatural / Kathleen Coburn
  • SYMBOLISM
  • Allegoric writing / Samuel Taylor COleridge
  • Symbols / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Allegory / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Sun and the moon / George Herbert Clarke
  • The Rebirth archetype / Maud Bodkin
  • The Ancient Mariner and Purgatorio / G.W. Knight
  • Primary and secondary themes / Robert Penn Warren
  • Symbol hunting / Elmer Edgar Stoll
  • The Ship and the sea as symbols / W.H. Auden
  • DICTION, VERSIFICATION, AND GLOSS
  • Metre and diction / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Diction / John Livingston Lowes
  • The Influence of the popular ballad / Charles Wharton Stork
  • The Ballad stanza / Tristram P. Coffin
  • The Gloss / B. R. McElderry, Jr.
  • CONCLUSION
  • The Ancient Mariner / Humphry House
  • APPENDIX
  • Chronology
  • Suggestions for study
  • A Checklist of works for further study.