The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Illustrated

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: Coleridge uses narrative t...