"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that appears in Lyrical Ballads, published with the collaboration of William Wordsworth in 1978. The story goes about an old man who stops a young man on his way to a wedding feast and “hypnotizes” him telling the story of his youth living at the sea. His Albatross murdering, his suffering, and his redemption.

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Samuel Taylor, Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. “Title Page from: Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798.” Wikimedia Commons, 1 Aug. 2009, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyrical_Ballads.jpg. Accessed 5 Dec. 2021.