The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language. It is the longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was written in 1797-98 and revised in 1817. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language. It is the longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was written in 1797-98 and revised in 1817. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features colour illustrations by Gustave Dor??? (1832-1883), the most remarkable wood engraver of the 19th century. He illustrated many major works of literature from the Bible to Don Quixote, the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Add this copy of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to cart. $72.50, very good condition, Sold by Kulturas books west rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pacific Palisades, CA, UNITED STATES, published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. / Verona Edition.
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Very Good. 0706600517. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Circa 1850s, Verona Edition. Grey spine on green boards with title plate pasted on front deccorated in green and rust colors, Art Nouveau style, age toning to edges, fraying to spine bottom. Book is firm in binding, top edge gilt, b&w frontispiece portrait, green, red and gilt llustrated title page, decorated endpapers bright, covers started (binding secured). Beautiful frontispiece, with likeness of Coleridge. A few pages are uncut. Deckled edges. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 16mo 6"-7" tall; 28 pages.
Add this copy of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to cart. $90.00, very good condition, Sold by THE OREGON ROOM rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1945 by Heritage Press.
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Very Good. Size: 10x7x0; 1945 Heritage/Macy's large pictorial hardcover is slipcase, Fine-/Good+ Slipcase, slipcase has short crack at top edge, wear at rear fore-edge, a small amount of stains on rear panel, book is clean & bright with no markings, light fading to color on spine-lettering reads fine.
