The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Taylor Coleridge, Samuel / Warner, Marina
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772�34), one of the most imaginative poets of the English Romantic Movement, was also its most influential thinker and philosopher. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written early in his life, during a period of intense and impassioned creativity, and, like all his best work, has a visionary quality with strong religious and metaphysical overtones.Mervyn Peake (1911�68) was born in China but moved to England at the ...