![]() We can say it is a kind of improvement from the epics as regards the length and subject matter, but the poem is still wordy and the language used is old compared even to Coleridge’s times. ![]() ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the first poem in this anthology. These two poets laid the foundation stone of what was to become the greatest and most famous literary movements of all, that is ‘Romanticism.’ Coleridge and Wordsworth published their anthology ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1798 and it flew right off the shelves. People want stories that are more relatable, and not just about royalty and noblemen but about the common people.Įnter Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, two friends and master poets who set about writing a small anthology of poems that was to change the way we look at poetry. The primary form of poetry, however, is still the long Epic poems. By this time people are already familiar with Shakespeare and Marlowe’s plays and Milton and Spencer’s poems. It’s late 1790s, and England, that pinnacle of western power, is undergoing a massive change and overturn in its social, economic and political spheres of life. ![]() The Rime of The Ancient Mariner Themes Advertisements Flashback/ The Background: ![]()
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