The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & other Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge an English poet critic and philosopher co-founded the Romantic Movement in England with his friend William Wordsworth and was one of the Lake Poets. In addition to his significant prose work Biographia Literaria he is probably best remembered for his poems.Day after day day after day We stuck nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. The longest important poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) was composed around 1797 and initially appeared in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. The version used in modern publications is a later revision printed in 1817 with a gloss. It was a significant transition to contemporary poetry and the start of British Romantic literature along with other works in Lyrical Ballads.