Coleridge's ancient mariner

Author(s)

• Mays, J. C. C.

Bibliographic Information

Coleridge's ancient mariner

J.C.C. Mays

（Nineteenth-century major lives and letters）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C. C. Mays traces the changes in the several versions published in Coleridge's lifetime and shows how Wordsworth's troubled reaction to the poem influenced its subsequent interpretation. This is also the first book to situate the "Mariner" in the context of the entirety of Coleridge's prose and verse, now available in the Bollingen Collected edition and Notebooks; that is, not only in relation to other poems like "The Ballad of the Dark Ladie" and "Alice du Clos," but also to ideas in his literary criticism (especially Biographia Literaria), philosophy, and theology. Using a combination of close reading and broad historical considerations, reception theory, and book history, Mays surveys the poem's continuing life in illustrated editions and educational textbooks; its passage through the vicissitudes of New Criticism and critical theory; and, in a final chapter, its surprising affinities with some experimental poems of the present time.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations and References 1 Taking Bearings, Setting a Course what, when and why peculiar distractions almost like a subplot and further ideal core of the onion neither sheep nor goats 2 What Does the Poem Do? odds simply ballad words shape pictures mix so what 3 As a Poem of the Imagination return to source sensible and intelligible worlds touching Reason consequences 4 Wordsworth as Collaborator and Contributor seeds early collaboration the third attempt a different direction and sudden surprise 5 The Shadow Cast by Wordsworth the pairing welcome to Town End counter-statement further reformulations legacy 6 Revision, Gloss, Choice variants, versions, phases the 1800 version the 1817 version gloss choice 7 A Reputation by Default terms of acceptance provisional welcome (1800-1850) illustrated and examined, honoured and altered (1850-1910) researched, cherished, changing places (1890-1934) two landmarks and some twisted wires apotheosis and aftermath (1934-1972) begin again better 8 Today and To Do the double-bind of being ingenuous re-run an other way the labels are important all the dead voices Appendix 1: "Ancient Mariner "1798 Version Appendix 2: Reading "Alice du Clos", and for the Birds preamble narrative characters in action enlarging stanzas and their rhymes a scheme of echoes postponed problems a "live" solution clarifying comparisons beyond the text Notes Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB22666554
• ISBN:
  • 9781137602572
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 267 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 821.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Rime of the ancient mariner
  • LCSH : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA84851161