Gustave Doré -The rime of the Ancient Mariner

Art by Lancelot Speed for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Andrew Lang's "The Blue Poetry Book." London: Longmans, Green, 1891 “The Blue Poetry Book” was Andrew Lang's first and only “colored” book of poetry. It collects nearly 150 poems by masters such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, Poe, Marlowe, Coleridge, Milton, Macaulay, among others. The poems are accompanied by 100 black and white illustrations by Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. And..

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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is the epic poem, origen of the expressions "an albatross around one's neck" and "water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustration from the Folio Society's deluxe edtion

One of the themes in Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Sin and Redemption. After the Mariner commits the sin of shooting the Albatross, guilt begins to manifest in all kinds of super natural forms. The Albatross is a representative of nature, but means nothing to the Mariner. Nature quickly changes and began punishing him for killing the symbol of nature. He is then penalized by the rays of the sun and mocked by the sight of water that he could not drink. Afterward the Mariner begins realizing…

Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14598373999) - Category:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikimedia Commons