Book Description
With illustrations by Mervyn Peake-With a new introduction by Marina Warner
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
This edition of Coleridge's classic poem reprints the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays that read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" from five contemporary critical perspectives: reader response; Marxist; psychoanalytic; deconstructionist and new historical. An additional essay demonstrates how these various approaches can be combined.
From the Publisher
With illustrations by Mervyn Peake
With a new introduction by Marina Warner --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
With a new introduction by Marina Warner --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
From the Back Cover
'The greatest sea poem in the language' Jonathan Raban
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER
Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brought misfortune on the ship and all its crew.
The poem is brilliantly illustrated by Mervyn Peake. His powerful, arresting images perfectly express the qualities of the text, its gothic atmosphere and supernatural terrors, ultimately softened by pity and the hope of redemption.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
PAUL H. FRY is William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University.
