The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrator: Richard Burton

Unabridged: 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/03/2001

Synopsis

Richard Burton and Ralph Richardson join together in this unqiue musical production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The superb delivery of both these actors is augmented by an original soundtrack composed by David Moore.

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was born in Ottery, UK. A poet, philosopher, theologian, and literary critic, he was seminal to the development of the Romantic Movement, along with his friend William Wordsworth. Coleridge contributed to English Literature with many works, including the famous “Kubla Khan” and “Frost At Midnight”. He died in Highgate, London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

So why did the Ancient Mariner shoot the Albatross? To me the answer is simple. He did it because he could; he did it because is he is a man, and that’s what men do: he saw something beautiful; he saw perfection in nature, and he killed it. That’s humanity for you. Sinning is easily, as quickly as a......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Who we start out as and who we end up as has always seemed to me to be the central point of this poem. One can often return to a physical place - but in the returning find that place lost - due to the way their journey has changed their soul. Looking for salvation one often finds that (in the findin......more

Goodreads review by Cameron

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. When I did construction work this is what I always wrote on the inside of the Port-a-Potties, amongst all the other graffiti and a......more

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