The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For those of you who were away this week, we read a narrative poem and discussed it on Wednesday and Thursday (April 9 and 10). We only had 20 out of 27 students in class Thursday, so if anyone wants to discuss the poem (or discuss it further) we can use the blog to do that.

Here is a link to the full text of the poem: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/coler01.html

Here is a link to some of the excellent illustrations that were done for a later edition of the poem:

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/dore_mariner.html

More of his work can be found at: http://dore.artpassions.net/

Sarah G. had wanted to know more about these illustrations, so I found these. There are a lot more here than in our textbook.

It turns out the illustrations were done by Gustave Doré; they are illustrations to the 1876 edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Read more about him here:

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/dore/

I feel like we barely scratched the surface of this text today, so maybe we can do some more with it here.