NAVIGATION: Index of Dr. Weller's Class Materials Index of English 341 Materials

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


Wordsworth's, "The world is too much with us" (p. 347) is about the same problem that Coleridge addressed in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
From the introduction to Coleridge in the Norton Anthology (p. 438): "Mary Shelly appears to have been haunted by the memory of the evening when, a small child, she hid behind a sofa to listen to Coleridge, one of her father's visitors, recite The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and a stanza from that poem of dark mystery found its way into Frankenstein, just as her recollections of that visitor's voice contributed to her depictions of the irresistible hold her novel's storytellers have over their auditors."
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