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..