"The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Students and Staff of the University of Virginia

Sources

London : J. and A. Arch, 1798Coleridge revised this poem several times, so there are a number of different versions, each of which is interesting in its own way, so it is a matter of editorial choice as to which version to reproduce in a particular edition. Here, we have chosen to reproduce the first version of the poem, printed in the first London edition of Lyrical Ballads, the ground-breaking collection of poetry that Coleridge and William Wordsworth produced in 1798. This version preserves some of the archaic spellings (such as "ancyent") that Coleridge toned down in later versions. Our page images have been sourced from Google Books.

Editorial Statements

Research informing these annotations draws on publicly-accessible resources, with links provided where possible. Annotations have also included common knowledge, defined as information that can be found in multiple reliable sources. If you notice an error in these annotations, please contact lic.open.anthology@gmail.com.

Original spelling and capitalization is retained, though the long s has been silently modernized and ligatured forms are not encoded.

Hyphenation has not been retained, except where necessary for the sense of the word.

Page breaks have been retained. Catchwords, signatures, and running headers have not.

Materials have been transcribed from and checked against first editions, where possible. See the Sources section for more information.

Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere". Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. and A. Arch, 1798 , 4-51 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Coleridge/coleridge-rime. Accessed: 2024-12-04T08:23:23.482Z