ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–1798 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (1772-1834) experimental, supernatural poem was originally published in Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collaborative venture with William Wordsworth. The mariner describes his ship becoming trapped in ice at the South Pole.

Detailed explanation-3: -Others say the poem was inspired by a dream that Coleridge’s friend, George Cruikshank had after reading Thomas James’s Strange and Dangerous Voyage. This account refers to an old man who had been shipwrecked and survives thanks to angels piloting the ship.

Detailed explanation-4: -He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Detailed explanation-5: -His most famous works – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ – all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs.