The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Doré's engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The full text is augmented by 38 plates of open seas, whirlpools, sea monsters, the ice of Antarctica, and more.Publishers Weekly"It is an ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one of thee...." Although these ominous lines perennially instill fear of final exams and term papers in the minds of high school students and Romantic English majors, they're not often remembered by adults. Mason's reading of Coleridge's 1796 epic poem is at once hypnotic and stirring. The Academy Award-nominated actor reads the chilling tale involving clashes with sea monsters, a boat swarming with zombies and a dice game with Death in an authoritative English accent. Like the ocean surrounding the Mariner's ship, his voice ebbs and flows with the imaginative poem's various heights. He quickly rattles off, "water, water, every where, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" but gently whispers "And I had done an hellish thing, and it would work `em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow." Coleridge (1772-1834), uses words to make the fantastical believable, and here, Mason brings those words vividly to life. A bonus track features Mason's animated reading of The Hunting of the Snark, an eight-canto poem by Lewis Carroll. (Feb.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
About the SeriesAbout This VolumePt. 1"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": The 1798 and 1817 TextsBiographical and Historical Contexts3The 1798 and 1817 Texts25Pt. 2"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"79Reader-Response Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"97Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"113Marxist Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"131How Marxism Reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"148The New Historicism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"168Sameness or Difference? Historicist Readings of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"187Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"220An I for an Eye: "Spectral Persecution" in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"238Deconstruction and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"261Voice and Ventriloquy in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"282Combining Critical Perspectives on the "Rime"315Wordsworth in the "Rime"319Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms343About the Contributors356
