Samuel Taylor Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Modern Critical Interpretations)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the most famous of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daemonic poems. An eerily compelling ballad with powerful metaphysical overtones, the Mariner's hypnotic tale continues to fascinate readers and critics. The title, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.