Ancient mariner

(In earlier posts, I told you that I am no doctor, dietitian, or personal trainer. Now, you discover that I am no Samuel Coleridge either. Shocking. Tragic. I’ll give you a moment to recov…

An engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "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..

'The Gust' by Willem van de Velde the Younger

...around your neck...

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

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 Gustave Doré created these illustrations for a 1877 German edition The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor … Continue reading "Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877"